πληρόω, -ῶ,
[in LXX chiefly for מָלֵא;]
1. to fill, make full, fill to the full, c. acc.;
(a) of things: pass. (σαψήνη, φάραγξ), Mt 13:48, Lk 3:5(LXX); fig., Mt 23:32; but chiefly of immaterial things: πᾶσαν χρείαν, Phl 4:19; ἦχος ἐπλήρωσε τ. οἶκον, Ac 2:2; c. gen. rei (cl.), Ac 5:28; pass., seq. ἐκ, Jo 12:3 (cf. B1., § 36, 4); π. τ. καρδίαν, Jo 16:6, Ac 5:3; metaph., of the all-pervading activity of Christ, Eph 4:10; mid., Eph 1:23;
(b) of persons: to fill with, cause to abound in: c. gen. rei (cl.), Ac 2:28(LXX), Ro 15:13; pass., to be filled with, abound in: Eph 3:19, Phl 4:18; c. gen. rei (cl.), Ac 13:52, Ro 15:14, II Ti 1:4; c. dat. (Æsch., al.), Lk 2:40 (c. gen., T), Ro 1:29, II Co 7:4; c. acc. (so in π., v. MM, xx), Phl 1:11, Col 1:9; seq. ἐν, Eph 5:18, Col 2:10.
2. to complete;
(a) to complete, fulfil: of number, Re 6:11, WH, txt.; of time (MM, xx), Mk 1:15, Lk 21:24, Jo 7:8, Ac 7:23, 309:2324:27; ἐυδοκίαν, II Th 1:11; τ. χαράν, Phl 2:2; pass., Jo 3:2915:1116:2417:13, I Jo 1:4, II Jo 12; τ. ἔργα, Re 3:2; ἡ ὑπακοή, II Co 10:6; τ. πάσχα, Lk 22:16;
(b) to execute, accomplish, carry out to the full: Mt 3:15, Lk 7:19:31, Ac 12:2513:2514:2619:21, Ro 8:413:815:19, Ga 5:14, Col 1:254:17, Re 6:11, T, WH, R, mg.;
(c) of sayings, prophecies, etc., to bring to pass, fulfil: Mt 1:222:15, 17, 234:145:178:1712:1713:3521:426:54, 5627:9, Mk 14:4915:28 (WH, R, txt. om.), Lk 1:204:2124:44, Jo 12:3813:1815:2517:1218:9, 3219:24, 36, Ac 1:163:1813:27, Ja 2:23 (cf. Lft., Col., 255 ff.).†