teleiovw teleiovw (in secular authors also teleovw, which Herodotus uses everywhere (and which is the prevailing form in Attic prose (Liddell and Scott)); other writers use both forms indifferently), teleivw: 1 aorist eteleivwsa; perfect teteleivwka; passive (or middle), present teleiou'mai; perfect teteleivwmai; 1 aorist ejteleiwqhn; (tevleio"); from Herodotus, Sophocles, Thucydides, and Plato down; equivalent to tevleion poiw', to make perfect or complete;1. to carry through completely; to accomplish, finish, bring to an end: tovn, ; tov e[rgon, ; ; ,(; tovn oi\kon, ); tav" hJmevra", ; middle (present cf. Buttmann, 38 (33)) teleiou'mai, I finish complete, what was given me to do, (some (so A. V.) take it here as passive, I am perfected (understanding it of his death; cf. Ellicott, Life of our Lord, Lect. vi., p. 242 n{1}; Keim, ii., 615 n^1)).2. to complete (perfect), i. e. add what is yet lacking in order to render a thing full: thvn ajgavphn, passive, ; ,; hJ duvnami" mou ejn ajsqevneia teleiou'tai, my power shows itself most efficacious in them that are weak, R G; ejk tw'n e[rgwn hJ pivsti" ejteleiwvqh, by works faith was perfected, made such as it ought to be, ; teteleivwtai tiv" ejn th'/ ajgavph, one has been made perfect in love, his love lacks nothing, (oiJ teleiwqente" ejn ajgavph, Clement of Rome, ,; ; (teleiw'sai thvn ejkklhsivan sou ejn th'/ ajgavph sou, `Teaching' etc. 10, 5)); i{na wjsiv teteleiwmevnoi eij" e{n, that they may be perfected into one, i. e. perfectly united, . tina, to bring one's character to perfection: h[dh teteleivwmai, I am already made perfect, (Sap. ; w\ yuchv ... o{tan teleiwqh" kaiv brabeiwn kaiv stefavnwn ajxiwqh", Philo de legg. alleg. 3, 23; yuchv ... teleiwqeisa ejn ajretw'n ajqloi" kaiv ejpiv tovn o{ron ejfikomenh tou' kalou', id. de somn. 1, 21; equivalent to to be footpad perfect, ().3. to bring to the end (goal) proposed: oujdevn, ; tina, (to perfect or consummate) i. e. to raise to the state befitting him: so of God exalting Jesus to the state of heavenly majesty, ; in the passive, ; ; to raise to the state of heavenly blessedness those who put their faith in the expiatory death of Christ, passive, ; ((Act. Petr. et Paul. sec. 88, Tdf. edition, p. 39; Act. Barnab. sec. 9, id., p. 68; cf. `Teaching' etc. 16, 2); with marturivw/ added, of the death of the apost. Paul, Eusebius, h. e. 9, 22, 2 (cf. Heinichen's note on 7, 15, 5)); to make one, meet for future entrance on this state and give him a sure hope of it even here on earth, ,; tina katav suneivdhsin, ; cf. Bleek, Brief an d. Hebrew , p. 297ff; C. R. K?stlin, Lehrbegriff des Evang. u. der Briefe Johannis (Ber