Original Word: ὁλοτελής, ές
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: holotelés
Phonetic Spelling: (hol-ot-el-ace')
Short Definition: perfect, complete
Definition: perfect, complete, all.

3651 holotelḗs (an adjective, derived from 3650 /hólos, "whole" and 5056 /télos, "end-purpose") – properly, wholly (holistically), "fully-layered" (all levels present) – describing someone reaching the end-goal of "entire sanctification." 3651 /holotelḗs ("entirely") is only used in 1 Thes 5:23.

[3651 /holotelḗs is rare outside the NT, but occurs four times in Hermas (about ad 140) – again expressing the idea of "full continuity (unbroken, complete)" (TDNT, 5, 174).]

STRONGS NT 3651: ὁλοτελής

ὁλοτελής, ὁλοτελες (ὅλος, τέλος), perfect, complete in all respects: 1 Thessalonians 5:23. (Plutarch, plac. philos. 5, 21; (Field, Hexapla, Leviticus 6:23; Psalm 50:21); ecclesiastical writings.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

wholly.

From holos and telos; complete to the end, i.e. Absolutely perfect -- wholly.

see GREEK holos

see GREEK telos

Forms and Transliterations

ολοτελεις ολοτελείς ὁλοτελεῖς holoteleis holoteleîs oloteleis

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