Original: πλήρωμα

Transliteration: plḗrōma

Phonetic: play'-ro-mah

Short Definition: Which is put in to fill up

- Original: πλήρωμα

- Transliteration: Pleroma

- Phonetic: play'-ro-mah

- Definition:

1. that which is (has been) filled

a. a ship inasmuch as it is filled (i.e. manned) with sailors, rowers, and soldiers

b. in the NT, the body of believers, as that which is filled with the presence, power, agency, riches of God and of Christ

2. that which fills or with which a thing is filled

a. of those things which a ship is filled, freight and merchandise, sailors, oarsmen, soldiers

b. completeness or fulness of time

3. fulness, abundance

4. a fulfilling, keeping

- Origin: from G4137

- TDNT entry: 10:58,9

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter

- Strong's: From G4137; repletion or completion that is (subjectively) what fills (as contents supplement copiousness multitude) or (objectively) what is filled (as container performance period): - which is put in to fill up piece that filled up fulfilling full fulness.

Cognate: G1603, G1604, G378, G4134, G4135, G4136, G4137, G466, G4845