πλήρωμα

plhvrwma plhvrwma,
plhrwvmato",
tov (
plhrovw), the Septuagint for al?m];1. etymologically it has a passive sense, that which is (or has been) filled; very rarely so in classical Greek: a ship, inasmuch as it is filled (i. e. manned) with sailors, rowers, and soldiers;
ajpov
duvo
plhrwmatwn
!Emavconto, Lucian, ver. hist. 2, 37;
pevnte
ei\con
plhrwvmata, ibid. 38. In the N. T. the body of believers, as that which is filled with the presence, power, agency, riches of God and of Christ:
tou'
Cristou', (see
hJlikiva, 1 c. (cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 30, 3 N. T; Buttmann, 155 (136))); ;
eij"
pa'n
tov
plhvrwma
tou'
Qeou', that ye may become a body wholly filled and flooded by God, (but WH marginal reading reads
plhrwqh'/
pa'n
tov2. that which fills or with which a thing is filled: so very frequently in classical Greek from Herodotus down; especially of those things with which ships are filled, freight and merchandise, sailors, oarsmen, soldiers (cf. our `complement' (yet cf. Lightfoot as below, p. 258f)) (of the animals filling Noah's ark, Philo de vit. Moys. ii. sec. 12);
plhvrwma
povlew", the inhabitants or population filling a city, Plato, de rep. 2, p. 371 e.; Aristotle, polit. 3, 13, p. 1284{a}, 5; 4,4, p. 1291a, 17; others. So in the N. T.
hJ
gh'
kaiv
tov
plhvrwma
aujth'", whatever fills the earth or is contained in it, , Rec. ( (); (); ; , etc.;
tov
plhvrwma
th'"
qalavssh", (); );
kofivnwn
plhrwvmata, those things with which the baskets were filled, (basketfuls), T Tr WH (on this passive, cf. Lightfoot as below, p. 260); also
spurivdwn
plhrwvmata, ; the filling (Latin complementum) by which a gap is filled up, ; ; that by which a loss is repaired, spoken of the reception of all the Jews into the kingdom of God (see
h{tthma, 1), . Of time (see
plhrovw, 2 b.
a.), that portion of time by which a longer antecedent period is completed; hence, completeness, fullness, of time:
tou'
crovnou, ;
tw'n
kairw'n, (on which see
oijkonomiva).3. fullness, abundance: ; ; ; full number, .4. equivalent to
plhvrwsi" (see
kauvchma, 2), i. e. a fulfilling, keeping:
tou'
novmou (see
plhrovw, 2 c.
a.), . For a full discussion of this word see Fritzsche, Ep. ad Romans, ii., p. 469ff; (especially Lightfoot's Commentary on Colossians, p. 257ff).*