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ἀπαρτισμός
apartismos
G0535
G:N-M Greek

completion

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Apartismos denotes having enough to bring a planned tower-building project to its finish.

The attested use concerns having sufficient resources to carry a tower-building plan through to its intended finish.

Senses in use

  1. Sufficiency for finishing a planned work · dominant

    In Luke 14:28, the accusative singular form occurs in the question of whether a person who has calculated a tower's cost has enough for its completion; the APB renders the clause "whether he has enough to complete it."

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Luke 14:28, the APB presents the clause as having enough "to complete it." That wording confirms the verse's completion context rather than isolating a precise English equivalent.

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