STRONGS G4135:
πληροφορέω,
πληροφόρω: (1 aorist imperative
πληροφόρησον, infinitive
πληροφορησαι (
Romans 15:13 L marginal reading); passive, present imperative
πληροθορείσθω; perfect participle
πεπληροφορημενος; 1 aorist participle
πληροφορηθείς); (from the unused adjective
πληροθορος, and this from
πλήρης and
φέρω);
to bear or bring full, to make full;
a. to cause a thing to be shown to the full:
τήν διακονίαν, i. e. to fulfil the ministry in every respect,
2 Timothy 4:5 (cf.
πληροῦν τήν διακονίαν,
Acts 12:25); also
τό κήρυγμα,
2 Timothy 4:17.
b. "to carry through to the end, accomplish:
πράγματα πεπληροφορημενα,
things that have been accomplished (Itala and
Vulg.completae),
Luke 1:1 (cf.
ὡς ἐπληρώθη ταῦτα,
Acts 19:21) (cf. Meyer edition Weiss at the passage).
c. τινα,
to fill one with any thought, conviction, or inclination: (
Romans 15:13 L marginal reading (followed by
ἐν with the dative of thing): others,
πληρόω, which see, 1); hence,
to make one certain, to persuade, convince, one (
πολλαῖς οὖν λόγοις καί ὅρκοις πληροθορησαντες Μεγαβυζον, extracted from
Ctesias () in
Photius, p. 41, 29 ((edited by Bekker); but on this passive, see
Lightfoot as below)); passive,
to be persuaded, Romans 14:5;
πληροθορηθεις,
persuaded, fully convinced or assured, Romans 4:21; also
πεπληροθορήμενοι,
Colossians 4:12 L T Tr WH;
οἱ ἀπόστολοι...
πληροθορηθεντες διά τῆς ἀναστάσεως τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ καί πιστωθενθες ἐν τῷ λόγῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ,
Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 42, 3 [ET]; frequent so in ecclesiastical writings;
to render inclined or bent on, ἐπληροθορηθη καρδία...
τοῦ ποιῆσαι τό πονηρόν,
Ecclesiastes 8:11 (cf.
Test xii. Patr., test. Gad 2). The word is treated of fully by Bleek, Brief an d.
Hebrews 2:2, p. 233ff; Grimm in the Jahrbb. f. Deutsche TheoI. for 1871, p. 38ff; (
Lightfoot's Commentary on
Colossians 4:12. Cf. also
Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word.)
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