πληροφορέω

πληροφορέω — plērophoréō

πληροφορέω, πληροφόρω: (1 aorist imperative πληροφόρησον, infinitive πληροφορησαι (Rom 15:13 L marginal reading); passive, present imperative πληροθορείσθω; perfect participle πεπληροφορημενος; 1 aorist participle πληροφορηθείς); (from the unused adjective πληροθορος, and this from πλήρης and φέρω); to bear or bring full, to make full;

a. to cause a thing to be shown to the full: τήν διακονίαν, i. e. to fulfil the ministry in every respect, 2Ti 4:5 (cf. πληροῦν τήν διακονίαν, Act 12:25); also τό κήρυγμα, 2Ti 4:17.

b. "to carry through to the end, accomplish: πράγματα πεπληροφορημενα, things that have been accomplished (Itala and Vulg.completae), Luk 1:1 (cf. ὡς ἐπληρώθη ταῦτα, Act 19:21) (cf. Meyer edition Weiss at the passage).

c. τινα, to fill one with any thought, conviction, or inclination: (Rom 15:13 L marginal reading (followed by ἐν with the dative of thing): others, πληρόω, which see, 1); hence, to make one certain, to persuade, convince, one (πολλαῖς οὖν λόγοις καί ὅρκοις πληροθορησαντες Μεγαβυζον, extracted from Ctesias in Photius, p. 41, 29 ((edited by Bekker); but on this passive, see Lightfoot as below)); passive, to be persuaded, Rom 14:5; πληροθορηθεις, persuaded, fully convinced or assured, Rom 4:21; also πεπληροθορήμενοι, Col 4:12 L T Tr WH; οἱ ἀπόστολοι... πληροθορηθεντες διά τῆς ἀναστάσεως τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ καί πιστωθενθες ἐν τῷ λόγῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 42, 3 [ET]; frequent so in ecclesiastical writings; to render inclined or bent on, ἐπληροθορηθη καρδία... τοῦ ποιῆσαι τό πονηρόν, Ecc 8:11 (cf. Test xii. Patr., test. Gad 2). The word is treated of fully by Bleek, Brief an d. Heb 2:2, p. 233ff; Grimm in the Jahrbb. f. Deutsche TheoI. for 1871, p. 38ff; (Lightfoot's Commentary on Col 4:12. Cf. also Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word.)