plērōma · fullness

What it means

plērōma (πλήρωμα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “fullness”.

What fills.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Everything that fills something completely.
2. The set time, when its hour comes.
3. A piece or portion added to fill what is missing.
4. What carries out completely: love brings the law to its full aim.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fullness ×12
• patch ×2
• basketfuls ×1
• fulfillment ×1
• full ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×3
• John×1
• Romans×4
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×1
• Ephesians×4
• Colossians×2

• Matthew 9:16

  And no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak; for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear results.

• Mark 2:21

  No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.

• Mark 6:43

  And they picked up broken pieces, twelve baskets full, and of the fish.

• Mark 8:20

  “And when the seven for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?” And they say to him, “Seven.”

• John 1:16

  Because from his fullness we have all received, even grace upon grace;

• Romans 11:12

  Now if their trespass is riches for the world and their failure riches for the nations, how much more their fullness!

• Romans 11:25

  For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of this mystery, so that you may not be wise in your own estimation: that a hardening in part has come upon Israel until the fullness of the nations has come in;

• Romans 13:10

  Love works no evil to the neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

• Romans 15:29

  And I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Messiah.

• 1 Corinthians 10:26

  for the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.

• Galatians 4:4

  But when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

• Ephesians 1:10

  for the administration of the fullness of the times: to bring together under one head all things in the Messiah, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth; in him,

• Ephesians 1:23

  which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in all.

• Ephesians 3:19

  and to know the love of the Messiah that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled to all the fullness of God.

• Ephesians 4:13

  until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Messiah,

• Colossians 1:19

  because God was pleased for all the fullness to dwell in him,

• Colossians 2:9

  because in him all the fullness of deity dwells bodily,