Original Word: τελειότης, τητος, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: teleiotés
Phonetic Spelling: (tel-i-ot'-ace)
Short Definition: perfectness, perfection
Definition: perfectness, perfection, maturity.

Cognate: 5047 teleiótēs (a feminine noun) – completion (consummation), in its cumulative sense, i.e. built on what has to precede and also supports the stage that must come next. See 5056 (telos).

5047 /teleiótēs ("consummation") particularly then suggests the combination of truths (stages of spiritual growth), the culmination of which also supports future consummation.

[The other feminine noun from the same root, 5050 (teleíōsis), focuses on the end-stage (fulfillment).]

STRONGS NT 5047: τελειότης

τελειότης, τελειότητος, ἡ (τέλειος, which see), perfection;

a. i. e. the state of the more intelligent: Hebrews 6:1 (here R. V. marginal reading full growth).

b. perfection: (τῆς ἀγάπης, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 50, 1 [ET] (where see Harnack)); absolutely, moral and spiritual perfection, Colossians 3:14 (A. V., perfectness), on which passage, see σύνδεσμος, 1. (Proverbs 11:3, Alex.; Judges 9:16, 19; Wis. 6:16 Wis. 12:17; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 53, 5 [ET]; Plato, deff., p. 412 b. d.; (Aristotle, phys. 3, 6, p. 207a, 21; 8, 7 p. 261{a}, 36); Antoninus 5, 15.) (Cf. references under the word τέλειος, and B. Hartung, Der Begriff der τελειότης im N. T. (4to. Leipz. 1881).)

perfection

From teleios; (the state) completeness (mentally or morally) -- perfection(-ness).

see GREEK teleios

τελειότης τελειοτητα τελειότητα τελειότητι τελειοτητος τελειότητος teleioteta teleiotēta teleióteta teleiótēta teleiotetos teleiotētos teleiótetos teleiótētosInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts