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Koine Greek wordlink #98943

SR GNT Acts 20:24 τελειώσω (teleiōsō) ‘precious to myself so_as I may complete the course of me’ Strongs=50480 Lemma=teleioō
Word role=verb mood=subjunctive tense=aorist voice=active person=1st number=singular
Year=60 AD Event=Paul_speaks_to_Ephesian_Elders TimeSeries=Paul_speaks_to_Ephesian_Elders

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Other uses (2) of identical word form τελειώσω (V-SAA1··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘τελειώσω’ (V-SAA1··S) is always and only glossed as ‘I may complete’.

Yhn (Jhn) 4:34 ‘having sent me and I may complete of him the work’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 4:34 word 17

OET-LV: 34 The Yaʸsous is _saying to _them: My food is that I _may _do the will of _the one having _sent me, and I _may _complete the work of _him. (JHN_4:34)

OET-RV: 34 “Obeying God who sent me is like food to me, and I plan to finish his work,” Yeshua explained. (JHN 4:34)

Yhn (Jhn) 5:36 ‘the father in_order_that I may complete them same the’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 5:36 word 22

OET-LV: 36 But I am _having the testimony greater than the Yōannaʸs, because/for the works that the father has _given to _me, in _order _that I _may _complete them, the same works which I _am _doing, is _testifying concerning me that the father has _sent_ me _out. (JHN_5:36)

OET-RV: 36 But I have a stronger testimony than Yohan’s because the father has entrusted works to me to complete, and which I’m already doing and which clearly show that the father sent me here. (JHN 5:36)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘teleioō’ have 12 different glosses: ‘has_been perfected’, ‘having completed’, ‘having_been perfected’, ‘may_be completed’, ‘to perfect’, ‘was perfected’, ‘I am_being perfected’, ‘I have_been perfected’, ‘I may complete’, ‘he has perfected’, ‘they may_be perfected’, ‘perfected’.

Greek words (4) other than τελειώσω (V-SAA1··S) with a gloss related to ‘complete’

1 TH 5:23 ὁλοτελεῖς (holoteleis) S-AMP Lemma=holotelēs ‘of peace might sanctify you_all complete and complete of you_all’ SR GNT 1 Th 5:23 word 10

OET-LV: 23 And himself the god of_ the _peace might _sanctify you _all complete, and complete of _you _all the spirit, and the soul, and the body, blamelessly at the coming of _the master of _us, Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) chosen _one /messiah, might _have _kept. (TH1_5:23)

OET-RV: 23 May the God of peace himself make you completely holy and may your entire spirits, souls, and bodies be kept irreproachable at the returning of our master Yeshua Messiah. (TH1 5:23)

1 TH 5:23 ὁλόκληρον (holoklaʸron) S-NNS Lemma=holoklēros ‘you_all complete and complete of you_all the spirit’ SR GNT 1 Th 5:23 word 12

OET-RV: 23 May the God of peace himself make you completely holy and may your entire spirits, souls, and bodies be kept irreproachable at the returning of our master Yeshua Messiah. (TH1 5:23)

2 TIM 3:17 ἄρτιος (artios) S-NMS Lemma=artios ‘in_order_that complete may_be the of god’ SR GNT 2 Tim 3:17 word 2

OET-LV: 17 in _order _that the person the of_god may _be complete, having _been _finished _out toward every good work. (TI2_3:17)

OET-RV: 17 so that the person following God can be trained in doing every kind of good deed. (TI2 3:17)

YAC 1:4 ὁλόκληροι (holoklaʸroi) S-NMP Lemma=holoklēros ‘you_all may_be perfect and complete in nothing lacking’ SR GNT Yac 1:4 word 11

OET-LV: 4 And the endurance work its_perfect let _be _having, in _order _that you _all _may _be perfect and complete, in nothing lacking. (JAM_1:4)

OET-RV: 4 Let that endurance do its perfect work so that you all might become perfect and mature—not lacking anything. (JAM 1:4)

Key: S=substantive adjective V=verb AMP=accusative,masculine,plural NMP=nominative,masculine,plural NMS=nominative,masculine,singular NNS=nominative,neuter,singular