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Koine Greek wordlink #135149

SR GNT Col 4:12 τέλειοι (teleioi) ‘prayers in_order_that you_all may_be stood mature and having_been fully_assured in’ Strongs=50460 Lemma=teleios
Word role=substantive adjective case=nominative gender=masculine number=plural

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Other uses (4) of identical word form τέλειοι (S-NMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘τέλειοι’ (S-NMP) has 3 different glosses: ‘mature’, ‘mature are’, ‘perfect’.

Mat 5:48 ‘will_be therefore you_all perfect as the father’ SR GNT Mat 5:48 word 4

1Cor 14:20 ‘in your and thinking mature be becoming’ SR GNT 1Cor 14:20 word 14

Php 3:15 ‘as_many_as therefore mature are this we may_be thinking and’ SR GNT Php 3:15 word 3

Yac (Jam) 1:4 ‘let_be having in_order_that you_all may_be perfect and complete in’ SR GNT Yac (Jam) 1:4 word 9

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘teleios’ have 6 different glosses: ‘a perfect’, ‘its perfect’, ‘for the mature’, ‘mature’, ‘mature are’, ‘perfect’.

Greek words (3) other than τέλειοι (S-NMP) with a gloss related to ‘mature’

1COR 2:6 τελείοις (teleiois) S-DMP ‘we are speaking among the mature wisdom but not’ SR GNT 1Cor 2:6 word 6

EPH 4:13 τέλειον (teleion) A-AMS ‘of god to a man mature to the measure of the stature’ SR GNT Eph 4:13 word 19

HEB 5:14 τελείων (teleiōn) S-GMP ‘for the mature but is solid’ SR GNT Heb 5:14 word 1

Key: A=adjective S=substantive adjective AMS=accusative,masculine,singular DMP=dative,masculine,plural GMP=genitive,masculine,plural NMP=nominative,masculine,plural