καταρτίζω

καταρτίζω — katartízō

καταρτίζω; future καταρτίσω (1Pe 5:10 L T Tr WH (Buttmann, 31 (32); but Rec. καταρτίσαι, 1 aorist optative 3 person singular)); 1 aorist infinitive καταρτίσαι; passive, present καταρτίζομαι; perfect κατήρτισμαι; 1 aorist middle 2 person singular κατηρτίσω; properly, "to render ἄρτιος, i. e. fit, sound, complete" (see κατά, III. 2); hence,

a. to mend (what has been broken or rent), to repair: τά δίκτυα, Mat 4:21; Mar 1:19 (others reference these examples to next entry); equivalent to to complete, τά ὑστερήματα, 1Th 3:10.

b. to fit out, equip, put in order, arrange, adjust: τούς αἰῶνας, the worlds, passive Heb 11:3 (so, for הֵכִין, ἥλιον, Psa 73:16; σελήνην, Psalm 88:38 ); σκεύη κατηρτισμένη εἰς ἀπώλειαν, of men whose souls God has so constituted that they cannot escape destruction (but see Meyer (edited by Weiss) in the place cited), Rom 9:22 (πλοῖα, Polybius 5, 46, 10, and the like); of the mind: κατηρτισμένος ὡς etc. so instructed, equipped, as etc. (cf. Buttmann, 311 (267); but others take κατηρτισμένος as a circumstantial participle "when perfected shall be as (not 'above') his master" (see Meyer, in the place cited); on this view the passage may be referred to the next entry), Luk 6:40; middle to fit or frame for oneself, prepare: αἶνον, Mat 21:16 (from Psa 8:3; the Sept. for יָסַד); σῶμα, Heb 10:5.

c. ethically, to strengthen, perfect, complete, make one what he ought to be: τινα (1Pe 5:10 (see above)); Gal 6:1 (of one who by correction may be brought back into the right way); passive, 2Co 13:11; τινα ἐν παντί ἔργῳ ((T WH omit)) ἀγαθῷ, Heb 13:21; κατηρτισμένοι ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ νοι< κτλ., of those who have been restored to harmony (so πάντα εἰς τωὐτό, Herodotus 5, 106; ἵνα καταρτισθῇ ἡ στασιαζουσα πόλις, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 3,10), 1Co 1:10. (Compare: προκαταρτίζω.)