Word study · Greek

teleios

complete, mature, perfect

Say it: TEH-lay-os (approximate)

τέλειος

What it means

Complete, mature. "As many as are perfect, think this way" (3:15).

Range of meaning

  • CompleteLacking nothing, whole.
  • MatureFully grown, as opposed to a child.
  • PerfectWithout flaw, in the older English sense.

In Philippians

  • Chapter 3

    "Let us therefore, as many as are perfect" (3:15).

Every verse (1)

Verses where G5046 is tagged in the Hebrew text: STEPBible Data (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. About our sources