Lexical Summary teleiotēs: completeness, perfection Original Word: τελειότηςTransliteration: teleiotēs Phonetic Spelling: (tel-i-ot'-ace) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: completeness, perfection Meaning: completeness, perfection Strong's Concordance perfectionFrom teleios; (the state) completeness (mentally or morally) -- perfection(-ness). see GREEK teleios Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5047: τελειότηςτελειότης, τελειότητος, ἡ (τέλειος, which see), perfection; a. i. e. the state of the more intelligent: Hebrews 6:1 (here R. V. marginal reading full growth). b. perfection: (τῆς ἀγάπης, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 50, 1 [ET] (where see Harnack)); absolutely, moral and spiritual perfection, Colossians 3:14 (A. V., perfectness), on which passage, see σύνδεσμος, 1. (Proverbs 11:3, Alex.; Judges 9:16, 19; Wis. 6:16 Wis. 12:17; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 53, 5 [ET]; Plato, deff., p. 412 b. d.; (Aristotle, phys. 3, 6, p. 207a, 21; 8, 7 p. 261{a}, 36); Antoninus 5, 15.) (Cf. references under the word τέλειος, and B. Hartung, Der Begriff der τελειότης im N. T. (4to. Leipz. 1881).) |
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