Strong G5046τέλειος
perfect
- Transliteration
- teleios
- Pronunciation
- tel'-i-os
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
Detailed definition
τέλειος, -α, -ον
(τέλος), [in LXX chiefly for שָׁלֵם, תָּמִים and cogn. forms;]
having reached its end, finished, mature, complete, perfect;
1. of persons, primarily of physical development,
__(a) full-grown, mature: Heb.5:14; ethically: Php.3:15; opposite to νήπιος (-άζειν), 1Co.2:6 14:20, Eph.4:13; τ. καὶ πεπληροφορημένοι, Col.4:12; τ. ἐν Χριστῷ, Col.1:28;
__(b) complete, perfect (expressing the simple idea of complete goodness, without reference either to maturity or to the philosophical idea of a τέλος; see Hort on Jas.1:4): Mat.5:48 19:21, Jas.1:4 3:2; of God, Mat.5:48.
2. Of things, complete, perfect: Rom.12:2; ἔργον, Jas.1:4; νόμος, Jas.1:25; δώρημα, Jas.1:17; ἀγάπη, 1Jn.4:18; τὸ τ., 1Co.13:10; compar., τελειοτέρα (σκηνή), Heb.9:11.
(There is probably no reference in St. Paul's usage to the use of this term in the ancient mysteries; cf. ICC on Col.1:28; but see also Lft., in l, and Notes, 173 f.) †
SYN.: see: ὁλόκληρος (and cf. Rendall, He., 158 ff.) (AS)
(τέλος), [in LXX chiefly for שָׁלֵם, תָּמִים and cogn. forms;]
having reached its end, finished, mature, complete, perfect;
1. of persons, primarily of physical development,
__(a) full-grown, mature: Heb.5:14; ethically: Php.3:15; opposite to νήπιος (-άζειν), 1Co.2:6 14:20, Eph.4:13; τ. καὶ πεπληροφορημένοι, Col.4:12; τ. ἐν Χριστῷ, Col.1:28;
__(b) complete, perfect (expressing the simple idea of complete goodness, without reference either to maturity or to the philosophical idea of a τέλος; see Hort on Jas.1:4): Mat.5:48 19:21, Jas.1:4 3:2; of God, Mat.5:48.
2. Of things, complete, perfect: Rom.12:2; ἔργον, Jas.1:4; νόμος, Jas.1:25; δώρημα, Jas.1:17; ἀγάπη, 1Jn.4:18; τὸ τ., 1Co.13:10; compar., τελειοτέρα (σκηνή), Heb.9:11.
(There is probably no reference in St. Paul's usage to the use of this term in the ancient mysteries; cf. ICC on Col.1:28; but see also Lft., in l, and Notes, 173 f.) †
SYN.: see: ὁλόκληρος (and cf. Rendall, He., 158 ff.) (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5046 appears in 17 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- perfect14
- age1
- be1
- man1
First verses
- Matthew 5:48Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
- Matthew 19:21Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
- Romans 12:2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
- 1 Corinthians 2:6Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
- 1 Corinthians 13:10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
- 1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
- Ephesians 4:13Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
- Philippians 3:15Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
- Colossians 1:28Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
- Colossians 4:12Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
- Hebrews 5:14But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
- Hebrews 9:11But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
- James 1:4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
- James 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
- James 1:25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
- James 3:2For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
- 1 John 4:18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
τέλειος
and τέλεος, α, ον, in Trag., Attic dialect, and Doric dialectalso ος, ον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 382 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 67a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1153b16, “SIG” 265 (Delph., 4th c.BC), etc.: the form τέλειος)] is alone used by [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], neither form in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus)]; τέλεος is alone used by [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, except in 9.110; in Trag. and _Attic dialect_ both forms occur; _Attic dialect_ Inscrr. up to the end of 3rd c.BC have only τέλεος, “IG” 12.76.39, +others, and τέλεος, τελέως, τελεῶ)] are recommended by [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Thomas Epigrammaticus Mag. p.358R.)]; τέλειος first in [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“IG” 22.2314.51, +others (early 2nd c.BC))], frequently in Papyri [Refs 3rd c.BC+ ((“PCair.Zen.” 429.13, +others (3rd c.BC), etc.), but the _neuter_ used as)] adverb is sometimes τέλεον[Refs 2nd c.AD+ ((“BGU” 903.12 (2nd c.AD))], etc., τέλειον [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 707.31 (2nd c.AD), etc.))]: the form τέλεως, accusative τέλεων, with plural τέλεῳ, is found in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 1025.61, 1026.14 (Cos, 4th-3rd c.BC), uncertain in “Schwyzer” 734 (from Zeleia) and 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.20)]: the form τέληον in [Refs (“GDI” 4963 (from Crete))]: (τέλος):—perfect, of victims, entire, without spot or blemish, ἀρνῶν αἰγῶν τε τελείων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.66, compare 24.34)]; βοτὸν τ. [Refs (“Riv.Fil.” 56.265 (from Cyrene))]; τὸνς ϝεξήκοντα τελέονς ὄϝινς (accusative plural) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“SIG” 56.30 (Argos, 5th c.BC))]; of sacrifices, ἱερὰ τ. perfect, of full tale or number, or performed with all rites, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.47, Legal cited in 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.97, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.60; τελέους ἀεὶ τελετὰς τελούμενος τέλεος ὄντως.. γίγνεται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 249c; in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.247, 24.315, αἰετὸς τελειότατος πετεηνῶν)] is probably the surest bird of augury (compare τελήεις).
b in Dialects, ={κύριος}, fully constituted, valid, ἐν ἀγορᾷ τελείῳ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Schwyzer” 324.1 (Delph., 4th c.BC), “SIG” 265 ([prev. passage]), etc.; ἀλιαίᾳ ἔδοξε τελείᾳ [prev. work]594.3 (Mycenae, 2nd c.BC))]; authoritative, final, ἁ δέ κα ϝράτρα ἁ δαμοσία τελεία εἴε ¯ δικάδο ¯ σα [Refs (“Schwyzer” 412 (from Elis))]; τὸ θέθμιον.. τέλεον εἶμεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 9(1).334.47 (_Locrian dialect_, 5th c.BC))]; so in Trag., τελεία ψῆφος a final decision, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 739, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 632.)]
2 of animals, full-grown, τέλεον νεαροῖς ἐπιθύσας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1504 (_anapaest meter_, and so perhaps αἶγες τ. in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” [same places]))]; ἐπ᾽ οὗ θύεται τὰ τ. τῶν προβάτων, opposed to γαλαθηνά, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.183, compare “SIG” 1015.31 (Halic.), 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 44, “PCair.Zen.” 429.13, +others (3rd c.BC), “Sammelb.” 5277.5 (3rd c.AD), etc.)]; τ. ζῷον defined in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 7.677)]; as substantive, τέλειον καὶ δέκα ἄρνες [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“SIG” 1024.35 (Myconus, 3rd-2nd c.BC))]; τ. ἵππος, opposed to πῶλος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 834c)]; τ. ἅρμα a chariot drawn by horses, opposed to ἅρμα πωλικόν, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 2758 111.D2 (from Aphrodisias), “SIG” 840 (Olympia, 2nd c.AD), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tim.” 50; τελέᾳ συνωρίδι “IG” 5(2).549.2, +others (4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus, 4th c.BC); τελέῳ τεθρίππῳ [prev. work] 5; κέλητι τελέῳ [prev. work] 550.29; κέλητι τελείῳ [prev. work] 7.1772.14, compare 16)]; of trees, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 3.7.5, “POxy.” 909.18 (3rd c.AD))]; εἰκὼν τελεία life-sized, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“GDI” 4942b7 (Crete, 2nd c.BC))]; of a torsionengine, full-sized, opposed to to the model of one, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 55.30)]: of human beings, full-grown, adult, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 929c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.4, 12, 14, “BGU” 1100.10 (1st c.BC), “POxy.” 485.30 (2nd c.AD), 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.10, +others)]
2.b married, τέλειοι οἱ γεγαμηκότες [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Grammaticus “fragment” 306)]; Ἥρα Τελεία is so explained at Stymphalus, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 8.22.2, compare 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Aristocles Historicus 5 (cited in Scholia 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.64); see below 11.)]
3 of persons, accomplished, perfect in his kind, in relation to quality, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.32,242; ἱστοριῶν συγγραφέα τέλειον “Supp.epigram” 1.400 (Samos, 2nd c.AD))]; τ. σοφιστής [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 403e; τ. εἴς τι [prev. author] “Phdr.” 269e (_superlative_))]; κατὰ πάντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ti.” 30d; πρός τι [prev. author] “Lg.” 647d, 678b, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.9, etc.; ἔν τινι [prev. author] “Ep.” 4.3 (_superlative_))]; οἱ τ. δογματικοί [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.60)]; but ἡ τελεία μαῖα the trained or qualified midwife, distinguished from ἡ ἀρίστη (the trained and experienced midwife), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.4.)]
3.b of things, φάρμακον τελεώτατον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 106b)]; τ. ἀρετή, φιλία, etc., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1129b30, 1156b34, +others)]; of a syllogism in the 1st pers. figure, the other figures being ἀτελεῖς, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “APr.” 27a1, etc.; τὸ τελεώτατον ἐκεῖνο γυμνάσιον, ὂ δὴ καὶ κατασκευὴν ὀνομάζουσι 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.169, compare 208: even of evils, τ. νόσημα)] a serious, dangerous illness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 2.30; τελειοτάτη κακία 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.500)]; ἀδικία τελέα, τελεωτάτη, absolute, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 348b, 344a)]; συνθέσεις λευκὰς τελείας δέκα τρεῖς thirteen complete white suits, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PHamb.” 10.14 (2nd c.AD))]; τ. ἀποζυγή complete divorce, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“PGrenf.” 2.76.19 (4th c.AD))]; ὕνις τελεία, κράβακτος ξύλινος τ., etc., [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“PTeb.” 406.19, +others (3rd c.AD))]; of land, fully inundated, opposed to ἀβροχικός, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“PMasp.” 107.13, +others (6th c.AD))], probably in [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“PFlor.” 286.23 (6th c.AD).)]
4 of prayers, vows, etc., fulfilled, accomplished, εὐχωλαί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 122.15; τέλειον ἐπ᾽ εὐχᾷ ἐσλόν [prev. author] “P.” 9.89; τελεία γένεος Οἰδίπου τ᾽ ἀρά 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 832 (Lyric poetry); μὰ τὴν τ. τῆς ἐμῆς παιδὸς Δίκην [prev. author] “Ag.” 1432; τέλεα εὔγματα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 353 (Lyric poetry))]; of omens or predictions, ὄψις ὀνείρου οὐ τελέη a vision which imported nothing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.121; τ. σύμβολον “hymnus ad Mercurium” 526 (assuming variant); τ. τὸ ἐνύπνιον ἀποτετέλεσται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 443b.)]
5 of numbers, full, complete, τελέους ἑπτὰ μῆνας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 104)]; τ. ἐνιαυτός the great year, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 39d.)]
5.b in Arithm., of perfectnumbers, which are equal to the sum of their divisors, as [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (6 = 3 + 2 + 1; 28 = 14 + 7 + 4 + 2 + 1, [prev. author] “R.” 546b, 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 7 “Def.” 23, Theo Sm.p.45 H., 2nd c.AD: Nicomachus Gerasenus Mathematicus “Arithmetica Introductio” 1.16:—but 9 is τ. ὅτι ἐκ τελείου τοῦ γ ¯ γίνεται, “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 58)] (3 is τ. because it has ἀρχή, μέσον, τέλος, [Refs ([prev. work] 14).)]
6 τ. κρατήρ, i.e. the third bowl offered to Ζεὺς Σωτήρ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 526, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 148.)]
II of the gods, having power to fulfil prayer, all-powerful (as implied in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 973, Ζεῦ Ζεῦ τέλειε, τὰς ἐμὰς εὐχὰς τέλει), Ζεὺς τ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.115, “P.” 1.67; τ. ὕψιστον Δία 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 28; τελέων τελειότατον κράτος, Ζεῦ [prev. author] “Supp.” 526 (Lyric poetry))]; of Hera ζυγία, the presiding goddess of marriage (see.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (above 1.2 b, τέλος 1.6), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.18, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 214, “fragment” 383, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 973 (Lyric poetry))]; of Apollo, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 25.22 (_superlative_))]; of the Eumenides, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 382 (Lyric poetry); Μοῖραι “Supp.epigram” 3.400.9 (Delph., 3rd c.BC))]: generally, θεοὶ τέλειοι τέλειαί τε [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 167 (Lyric poetry); πῦρ τέλεον ἄρρητον “Lyrica Alexandrina Adespota” 36.14: also ἀνὴρ τ)]. the head or lord of the house, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 972.)]
III ={τελευταῖος}, last, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 948 (Lyric poetry).)]
IV τέλειον, τό, a royal banquet, as a translated of the [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.AD: Perses Epigrammaticus τυκτά, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.110.)]
V ἡ τελεία (i.e. στιγμή) the full point, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 630.6; so τελείαν δεῖ στίξαι 5th c.AD: Hermias Alexandrinus Philosophus “in Platonis Phaedrum scholia” p.84 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus)]
V.2 ἡ τελεία (i.e. ἀντίδοτος) the perfect antidote, effective against all poisons, Scrib. Larg.177.
VI Τέλεος (i.e. μήν(, ὁ, name of a month at Epidaurus, [Refs (“IG” 42(1).109 ii 114.)]
VII adverb τελέως finally, absolutely, with full authority, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 320, 953 (both _anapaest meter_).)]
VII.2 completely, absolutely, thoroughly, τ. ἐς ἀσθενὲς ἔρχεται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.120)]; τ. ἐκκλησιάσαιμεν perfectly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 329 (Lyric poetry); τ. ἄφρων 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 12.4; ἔρια τ. ῥυπαρά “PCair.Zen.” 287 (3rd c.BC))]; τ. μ᾽ ὑπῆλθε completely deceived me, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Epicrates Comicus 9)]; τ. ἑστιᾶν perfectly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 2.2)]; τ. κινήσεται absolutely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 182c)]; τ. γὰρ ἡμᾶς ἐνώχλει he was a perfect nuisance to us, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 637.4 (3rd c.BC))]; τ. γυμνάζειν put a person through the τέλειον γυμνάσιον, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.286)]; μέσα τ. completely neutral, [Refs ([prev. author] 18(2).59, compare 79, +others--This is the only form of the)] adverb allowed by Thom.Mag.p.358 R., but τελείως is found in [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “Hel.” 18, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 13.18, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Definitiones” 411d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1021b26, “PPetr.” 3p.114 (3rd c.BC), LXX.Jdt.11.6, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.639, etc.)]
VII.3 the neuter τέλεον is also used as adverb in later Prose, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Merc.Cond.” 5, 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 1.8, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.56, etc.)]
VIII comparative and superlative: [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses only τελειότατος: in Prose τελεώτερος, -ώτατος)] prevail, though the other forms occur in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1097a30, 1174b22)]. comparative adverb τελεώτερον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 520b (τελειοτέρως Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.350, variant in 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 18); τελεώτατα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 351b.)]
and τέλεος, α, ον, in Trag., Attic dialect, and Doric dialectalso ος, ον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 382 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 67a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1153b16, “SIG” 265 (Delph., 4th c.BC), etc.: the form τέλειος)] is alone used by [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], neither form in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus)]; τέλεος is alone used by [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, except in 9.110; in Trag. and _Attic dialect_ both forms occur; _Attic dialect_ Inscrr. up to the end of 3rd c.BC have only τέλεος, “IG” 12.76.39, +others, and τέλεος, τελέως, τελεῶ)] are recommended by [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Thomas Epigrammaticus Mag. p.358R.)]; τέλειος first in [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“IG” 22.2314.51, +others (early 2nd c.BC))], frequently in Papyri [Refs 3rd c.BC+ ((“PCair.Zen.” 429.13, +others (3rd c.BC), etc.), but the _neuter_ used as)] adverb is sometimes τέλεον[Refs 2nd c.AD+ ((“BGU” 903.12 (2nd c.AD))], etc., τέλειον [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 707.31 (2nd c.AD), etc.))]: the form τέλεως, accusative τέλεων, with plural τέλεῳ, is found in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 1025.61, 1026.14 (Cos, 4th-3rd c.BC), uncertain in “Schwyzer” 734 (from Zeleia) and 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.20)]: the form τέληον in [Refs (“GDI” 4963 (from Crete))]: (τέλος):—perfect, of victims, entire, without spot or blemish, ἀρνῶν αἰγῶν τε τελείων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.66, compare 24.34)]; βοτὸν τ. [Refs (“Riv.Fil.” 56.265 (from Cyrene))]; τὸνς ϝεξήκοντα τελέονς ὄϝινς (accusative plural) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“SIG” 56.30 (Argos, 5th c.BC))]; of sacrifices, ἱερὰ τ. perfect, of full tale or number, or performed with all rites, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.47, Legal cited in 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.97, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.60; τελέους ἀεὶ τελετὰς τελούμενος τέλεος ὄντως.. γίγνεται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 249c; in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.247, 24.315, αἰετὸς τελειότατος πετεηνῶν)] is probably the surest bird of augury (compare τελήεις).
b in Dialects, ={κύριος}, fully constituted, valid, ἐν ἀγορᾷ τελείῳ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Schwyzer” 324.1 (Delph., 4th c.BC), “SIG” 265 ([prev. passage]), etc.; ἀλιαίᾳ ἔδοξε τελείᾳ [prev. work]594.3 (Mycenae, 2nd c.BC))]; authoritative, final, ἁ δέ κα ϝράτρα ἁ δαμοσία τελεία εἴε ¯ δικάδο ¯ σα [Refs (“Schwyzer” 412 (from Elis))]; τὸ θέθμιον.. τέλεον εἶμεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 9(1).334.47 (_Locrian dialect_, 5th c.BC))]; so in Trag., τελεία ψῆφος a final decision, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 739, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 632.)]
2 of animals, full-grown, τέλεον νεαροῖς ἐπιθύσας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1504 (_anapaest meter_, and so perhaps αἶγες τ. in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” [same places]))]; ἐπ᾽ οὗ θύεται τὰ τ. τῶν προβάτων, opposed to γαλαθηνά, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.183, compare “SIG” 1015.31 (Halic.), 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 44, “PCair.Zen.” 429.13, +others (3rd c.BC), “Sammelb.” 5277.5 (3rd c.AD), etc.)]; τ. ζῷον defined in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 7.677)]; as substantive, τέλειον καὶ δέκα ἄρνες [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“SIG” 1024.35 (Myconus, 3rd-2nd c.BC))]; τ. ἵππος, opposed to πῶλος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 834c)]; τ. ἅρμα a chariot drawn by horses, opposed to ἅρμα πωλικόν, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 2758 111.D2 (from Aphrodisias), “SIG” 840 (Olympia, 2nd c.AD), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tim.” 50; τελέᾳ συνωρίδι “IG” 5(2).549.2, +others (4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus, 4th c.BC); τελέῳ τεθρίππῳ [prev. work] 5; κέλητι τελέῳ [prev. work] 550.29; κέλητι τελείῳ [prev. work] 7.1772.14, compare 16)]; of trees, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 3.7.5, “POxy.” 909.18 (3rd c.AD))]; εἰκὼν τελεία life-sized, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“GDI” 4942b7 (Crete, 2nd c.BC))]; of a torsionengine, full-sized, opposed to to the model of one, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 55.30)]: of human beings, full-grown, adult, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 929c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.4, 12, 14, “BGU” 1100.10 (1st c.BC), “POxy.” 485.30 (2nd c.AD), 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.10, +others)]
2.b married, τέλειοι οἱ γεγαμηκότες [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Grammaticus “fragment” 306)]; Ἥρα Τελεία is so explained at Stymphalus, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 8.22.2, compare 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Aristocles Historicus 5 (cited in Scholia 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.64); see below 11.)]
3 of persons, accomplished, perfect in his kind, in relation to quality, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.32,242; ἱστοριῶν συγγραφέα τέλειον “Supp.epigram” 1.400 (Samos, 2nd c.AD))]; τ. σοφιστής [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 403e; τ. εἴς τι [prev. author] “Phdr.” 269e (_superlative_))]; κατὰ πάντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ti.” 30d; πρός τι [prev. author] “Lg.” 647d, 678b, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.9, etc.; ἔν τινι [prev. author] “Ep.” 4.3 (_superlative_))]; οἱ τ. δογματικοί [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.60)]; but ἡ τελεία μαῖα the trained or qualified midwife, distinguished from ἡ ἀρίστη (the trained and experienced midwife), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.4.)]
3.b of things, φάρμακον τελεώτατον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 106b)]; τ. ἀρετή, φιλία, etc., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1129b30, 1156b34, +others)]; of a syllogism in the 1st pers. figure, the other figures being ἀτελεῖς, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “APr.” 27a1, etc.; τὸ τελεώτατον ἐκεῖνο γυμνάσιον, ὂ δὴ καὶ κατασκευὴν ὀνομάζουσι 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.169, compare 208: even of evils, τ. νόσημα)] a serious, dangerous illness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 2.30; τελειοτάτη κακία 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.500)]; ἀδικία τελέα, τελεωτάτη, absolute, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 348b, 344a)]; συνθέσεις λευκὰς τελείας δέκα τρεῖς thirteen complete white suits, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PHamb.” 10.14 (2nd c.AD))]; τ. ἀποζυγή complete divorce, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“PGrenf.” 2.76.19 (4th c.AD))]; ὕνις τελεία, κράβακτος ξύλινος τ., etc., [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“PTeb.” 406.19, +others (3rd c.AD))]; of land, fully inundated, opposed to ἀβροχικός, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“PMasp.” 107.13, +others (6th c.AD))], probably in [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“PFlor.” 286.23 (6th c.AD).)]
4 of prayers, vows, etc., fulfilled, accomplished, εὐχωλαί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 122.15; τέλειον ἐπ᾽ εὐχᾷ ἐσλόν [prev. author] “P.” 9.89; τελεία γένεος Οἰδίπου τ᾽ ἀρά 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 832 (Lyric poetry); μὰ τὴν τ. τῆς ἐμῆς παιδὸς Δίκην [prev. author] “Ag.” 1432; τέλεα εὔγματα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 353 (Lyric poetry))]; of omens or predictions, ὄψις ὀνείρου οὐ τελέη a vision which imported nothing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.121; τ. σύμβολον “hymnus ad Mercurium” 526 (assuming variant); τ. τὸ ἐνύπνιον ἀποτετέλεσται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 443b.)]
5 of numbers, full, complete, τελέους ἑπτὰ μῆνας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 104)]; τ. ἐνιαυτός the great year, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 39d.)]
5.b in Arithm., of perfectnumbers, which are equal to the sum of their divisors, as [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (6 = 3 + 2 + 1; 28 = 14 + 7 + 4 + 2 + 1, [prev. author] “R.” 546b, 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 7 “Def.” 23, Theo Sm.p.45 H., 2nd c.AD: Nicomachus Gerasenus Mathematicus “Arithmetica Introductio” 1.16:—but 9 is τ. ὅτι ἐκ τελείου τοῦ γ ¯ γίνεται, “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 58)] (3 is τ. because it has ἀρχή, μέσον, τέλος, [Refs ([prev. work] 14).)]
6 τ. κρατήρ, i.e. the third bowl offered to Ζεὺς Σωτήρ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 526, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 148.)]
II of the gods, having power to fulfil prayer, all-powerful (as implied in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 973, Ζεῦ Ζεῦ τέλειε, τὰς ἐμὰς εὐχὰς τέλει), Ζεὺς τ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.115, “P.” 1.67; τ. ὕψιστον Δία 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 28; τελέων τελειότατον κράτος, Ζεῦ [prev. author] “Supp.” 526 (Lyric poetry))]; of Hera ζυγία, the presiding goddess of marriage (see.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (above 1.2 b, τέλος 1.6), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.18, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 214, “fragment” 383, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 973 (Lyric poetry))]; of Apollo, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 25.22 (_superlative_))]; of the Eumenides, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 382 (Lyric poetry); Μοῖραι “Supp.epigram” 3.400.9 (Delph., 3rd c.BC))]: generally, θεοὶ τέλειοι τέλειαί τε [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 167 (Lyric poetry); πῦρ τέλεον ἄρρητον “Lyrica Alexandrina Adespota” 36.14: also ἀνὴρ τ)]. the head or lord of the house, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 972.)]
III ={τελευταῖος}, last, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 948 (Lyric poetry).)]
IV τέλειον, τό, a royal banquet, as a translated of the [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.AD: Perses Epigrammaticus τυκτά, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.110.)]
V ἡ τελεία (i.e. στιγμή) the full point, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 630.6; so τελείαν δεῖ στίξαι 5th c.AD: Hermias Alexandrinus Philosophus “in Platonis Phaedrum scholia” p.84 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus)]
V.2 ἡ τελεία (i.e. ἀντίδοτος) the perfect antidote, effective against all poisons, Scrib. Larg.177.
VI Τέλεος (i.e. μήν(, ὁ, name of a month at Epidaurus, [Refs (“IG” 42(1).109 ii 114.)]
VII adverb τελέως finally, absolutely, with full authority, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 320, 953 (both _anapaest meter_).)]
VII.2 completely, absolutely, thoroughly, τ. ἐς ἀσθενὲς ἔρχεται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.120)]; τ. ἐκκλησιάσαιμεν perfectly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 329 (Lyric poetry); τ. ἄφρων 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 12.4; ἔρια τ. ῥυπαρά “PCair.Zen.” 287 (3rd c.BC))]; τ. μ᾽ ὑπῆλθε completely deceived me, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Epicrates Comicus 9)]; τ. ἑστιᾶν perfectly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 2.2)]; τ. κινήσεται absolutely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 182c)]; τ. γὰρ ἡμᾶς ἐνώχλει he was a perfect nuisance to us, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 637.4 (3rd c.BC))]; τ. γυμνάζειν put a person through the τέλειον γυμνάσιον, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.286)]; μέσα τ. completely neutral, [Refs ([prev. author] 18(2).59, compare 79, +others--This is the only form of the)] adverb allowed by Thom.Mag.p.358 R., but τελείως is found in [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “Hel.” 18, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 13.18, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Definitiones” 411d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1021b26, “PPetr.” 3p.114 (3rd c.BC), LXX.Jdt.11.6, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.639, etc.)]
VII.3 the neuter τέλεον is also used as adverb in later Prose, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Merc.Cond.” 5, 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 1.8, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.56, etc.)]
VIII comparative and superlative: [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses only τελειότατος: in Prose τελεώτερος, -ώτατος)] prevail, though the other forms occur in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1097a30, 1174b22)]. comparative adverb τελεώτερον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 520b (τελειοτέρως Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.350, variant in 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 18); τελεώτατα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 351b.)]