τελειόω

• τελεόω (teleóō)

From τέλειος (téleios, “finished”) +‎ -όω (-óō) from τέλος (télos, “end”).

τελειόω • (teleióō)

1. (of things, acts, works, time) to make perfect, complete, accomplish
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.120
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.32
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1174B.23
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 4:34
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 2:43
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 20:24
   • 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Collected Works 1.126
   • c. 245 CE – c. 325 CE, Iamblichus Chalcidensis, De vita Pythagorica 29.!58
   • c. 245 CE – c. 325 CE, Iamblichus Chalcidensis, Protrepticus
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.160
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1257
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 272D
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.11
   1. (in logic) to complete, make perfect the form or species
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1174A.16
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 29A.16
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 29A.30
   2. (passive voice, of prophecies) to be fulfilled
      • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 19:28
2. (of persons) to bring to perfection or consummation
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.86
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1089
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1510
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 192A
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 466E
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 487A
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 498B
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 776A.31
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 8.2.6
   • 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Collected Works 1.33
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.531
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.162
   1. (passive voice) to be made perfect
      • New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 11:40
      • New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 12:23
3. (intransitive) to bring fruit to maturity, come to maturity
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 757B.24

• “τελειόω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τελειόω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τελειόω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5048 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible