Lexicon holokléros: complete, entire Original Word: ὁλόκληρος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: holokléros Phonetic Spelling: (hol'-ok'-lay-ros) Short Definition: complete in every part, sound, perfect Definition: complete in every part, sound, perfect, entire. HELPS word-Studies 3648 holóklēros (from 3650 /hólos, "whole" and 2819 /klḗros, "a lot, cast to better discern God's preferred-will") – properly, "all that is included (apportioned) through divine lot." 3648 /holóklēros ("divinely-allotted wholeness") occurs twice in the NT. 1 Thes 5:23: "Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely (3651 /holotelḗs); and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete (3648 /holóklēros), without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (NASU). Js 1:4: "And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete (3648 /holóklēros), lacking in nothing" (NASU). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom holos and klérosDefinitioncomplete, entire NASB Translationcomplete (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3648: ὁλόκληροςὁλόκληρος, ὁλόκληρον ( ὅλος and κλῆρος, properly, all that has fallen by lot), complete in all its parts, in no part lacking or unsound, complete, entire, whole: λίθοι, untouched by a tool, Deuteronomy 27:6; Joshua 20:4 (viii. 31) 1 Macc. 4:47; of a body without blemish or defect, whether of a priest or of a victim, Philo de vici. § 12; Josephus, Antiquities 3, 12, 2 ((cf. Havercamp's Josephus, ii., p. 321)). Ethically, free from sin, faultless ( R. V. entire): 1 Thessalonians 5:23; plural, connected with τέλειοι and with the addition of ἐν μηδενί λειπόμενοι, James 1:4; complete in all respects, consummate, δικαιοσύνη, Wis. 15:3; εὐσέβεια, 4 Macc. 15:17. ( Plato, Polybius, Lcian, Epictetus, others; the Sept. for שָׁלֵם, Deuteronomy 27:6; תָּמִים, Leviticus 23:15; Ezekiel 15:5.) [SYNONYMS: ὁλόκληρος, τέλειος (cf. Trench, § xxii.): 'in the ὁλόκληρος no grace which ought to be in a Christian man is deficient; in the τέλειος no grace is merely in its weak imperfect beginnings, but all have reached a certain ripeness and maturity.']
Strong's entire, whole. From holos and kleros; complete in every part, i.e. Perfectly sound (in body) -- entire, whole. see GREEK holos see GREEK kleros |
