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Koine Greek wordlink #134192

SR GNT Col 4:12 τελειοῖ (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
Year=64 AD

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

The word form ‘τελειοῖ’ (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

OET-LV: 48 Therefore you _all will _be perfect as the heavenly father of _you _all the is perfect. (MAT_5:48)

OET-RV: 48 Instead you should all aim to be perfect just like your heavenly father is perfect. (MAT 5:48)

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

OET-LV: 20 Brothers, not little _children be _becoming in _your thinking, but in _the evil, be _child _like, and in _your thinking, mature be _becoming. (CO1_14:20)

OET-RV: 20 Brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your thinking. You all can be like infants with respect to evil, but in everything else, be mature in your thinking. (CO1 14:20)

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

OET-LV: 15 Therefore as _many _as mature are, this we _may _be _thinking, and if anything differently you _all _are _thinking, even this the god to _you _all will _be _revealing. (PHP_3:15)

OET-RV: 15 Those of us who are mature should think that way, and if you don’t yet, then God will reveal everything to you, (PHP 3:15)

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

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)

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 τελειοῖ (S-NMP) with a gloss related to ‘mature’

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

OET-LV: 6 And wisdom we _are _speaking among the mature, but wisdom, not of_ the _age this, nor of _the the_rulers of_ the _age this, the ones being _nullified, (CO1_2:6)

OET-RV: 6 However, when we’re with mature believers, we speak wisdom—not the wisdom of this age, and not the wisdom of the rulers of this age who will come to nothing. (CO1 2:6)

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

OET-LV: 13 until we _may_ which all _attain to the oneness of _the faith, and of _the knowledge of _the son of_ the _god, to a_ mature _man, to the_measure of_the_stature of _the fullness of _the chosen _one /messiah, (EPH_4:13)

OET-RV: 13 until we can reach the unity of our faith and of our knowledge about God’s son—becoming mature people measured against the stature of the fullness of the messiah. (EPH 4:13)

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

OET-LV: 14 But for_the_mature is the solid food, of _who because _of the practice their senses having _been _trained, having for distinction, of _good both and evil. (HEB_5:14)

OET-RV: 14 but mature people have solid food meaning that their senses have been trained and they can distinguish good from evil. (HEB 5:14)

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