Plerophoreo denotes bringing a stated matter or task to completion and being fully convinced regarding it.

The occurrences divide between bringing events, preaching, or ministry to completion and being fully convinced concerning God’s promise, personal judgment, or God’s will. The completion use appears in narrative and exhortation, while the conviction use occurs in participial and imperative clauses.

1. Bring a matter or assigned work to completion · dominant

   In Luke 1:1, the perfect passive participle describes the things around which a narrative is arranged; the APB renders them as “things fulfilled.” In 2 Timothy 4:17, the aorist passive subjunctive occurs in the purpose that preaching might reach completion, while 2 Timothy 4:5 uses an aorist active command concerning ministry; the APB renders the latter clause “fulfill your ministry.”

   Luke 1:12 Timothy 4:172 Timothy 4:5
2. Be fully convinced or assured · common

   In Romans 4:21, the aorist passive participle characterizes confidence that God could do what he had promised; the APB renders it “Fully convinced.” Romans 14:5 gives a present passive imperative for each person’s judgment in the mind, and Colossians 4:12 uses a perfect passive participle in the prayer that they stand in God’s will; the APB renders these clauses “fully convinced” and “fully assured.”

   Romans 4:21Romans 14:5Colossians 4:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the completion cluster with “fulfilled” and “fulfill,” and the conviction cluster with “Fully convinced” and “fully assured.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these phrases indicate the clauses’ presentation rather than fixed renderings of the lemma.