televw televw, tevlw; 1 aorist ejtelesa (cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 13, 3 c.); perfect tetevleka (); passive, present 3 person singular telei'tai ( L T Tr WH); perfect tetelesmai; 1 aorist ejtelevsqhn; 1 future telesqhvsomai; (tevlo"); from Homer down;1. to bring to a close, to finish, to end: e[th, passive, passed, finished, ,, ((so from Homer and Hesiod down; Aristotle, h. a. 7, 1 at the beginning, p. 580{a}, 14 ejn toi'" e[tesi to" div" eJptav tetelesmenoi"); triw'n teloumenwn hJmerw'n, Lucian, Alex. 38); tovn drovmon (Homer, Iliad 23, 373, 768; Sophocles Electr. 726), ; touv" lovgou", L T Tr WH; ; ; tav" parabolav", ; (a[cri telesqw'sin aiJ plhgaiv, ); a rare use is tevlein tav" povlei", i. e. your flight or journey through the cities (R. V. ye shall not have gone through the cities, etc.), (similar are ajnuvein touv" tovpou", Polybius 5, 8, 1; tav e{lh, 3, 79, 5; consummare Italiam, Flor. 1, (13) 18, 1; explere urbes, Tibull. 1, 4, 69; conficere aequor immensum, Vergil Georg. 2, 541; also xii., signorum orbem, Cicero, nat. deor. 2, 20, 52); with the participle of a verb (like a[rcomai, pauvomai, cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 45, 4 a.; Buttmann, sec. 144, 14), .2. to perform, execute, complete, fulfill (so that the thing done corresponds to what has been said, the order, command, etc.), i. e. a. with special reference to the subject-matter, to carry out the contents of a command": tovn novmon, (cf. Winer's Grammar, 134 (127)); ; thvn ejpiqumivan (i. e. tov ejpiqumoumenon), . b. with reference also to the form, to do just as commanded, and generally involving a notion of time, to perform the last act which completes a process, to accomplish, fulfill: a{panta (pavnta) tav katav novmon, ; thvn marturivan, the duty of testifying, ; tov musthvrion, passive, (cf. Winer's Grammar, 277 (260)); tov bavptisma, passive, ; pavnta, passive, (the distinction between televw and teleiovw may be seen in this verse); touv" lovgou" (tav rJhvmata) tou' Qeou', passive, ; a{panta (pavnta) tav gegrammevna, ; passive, (see gravfw, 2 c.); with ejn ejmoiv (in me) added, in my experience, ; ejn plhgai'", in the infliction of calamities, ; tetevlestai (A. V. it is finished) everything has been accomplished which by the appointment of the Father as revealed in the Scriptures I must do and bear, . equivalent to teleiovw, 2, which see (made perfect): L T Tr WH.3. to pay: tav divdracma, ; fovrou", , (tovn fovron, Plato, Alc. 1, p. 123 a.; tav tevlh, often in Attic writings). (Compare: ajpotelevw, diatelevw, ejktelevw, ejpitelevw, suntelevw.)*