Replete (literally or figuratively)
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G3324 is a Greek adjective meaning full, replete, or thoroughly supplied with named content. Because it is an adjective, it describes a condition or quality; it does not by itself name the process or cause that produced that condition.
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G3324 is a Greek adjective meaning full, replete, or thoroughly supplied with named content. Because it is an adjective, it describes a condition or quality; it does not by itself name the process or cause that produced that condition.
The BSB source-word alignment has 9 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include full (5), [It was] full (1), [They are] full (1), of (1), they soaked (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 23:28. Its strongest book concentrations include John (3), James (2), Romans (2), 2 Peter (1).
G3324 is a Greek adjective meaning full, replete, or thoroughly supplied with named content. Because it is an adjective, it describes a condition or quality; it does not by itself name the process or cause that produced that condition. John describes a net full of large fish after the risen Jesus directs the disciples' catch. Paul describes people full of many forms of wickedness and later expresses confidence that Roman believers are full of goodness and brimming with knowledge.
James calls the untamed tongue full of deadly poison and wisdom from above full of mercy and good fruit. The word can modify a tangible object or characterize moral and relational life, and the content determines whether the fullness is good, destructive, or simply physical. Full of goodness does not mean sinless perfection, and full of poison is a forceful picture of harmful speech rather than literal venom.
G3324 is also distinct from commands to be filled with the Spirit and from language of drunkenness or intoxication.
G3324 describes full condition across a net, patterns of wickedness, communal goodness and knowledge, destructive speech, and wisdom marked by mercy and good fruit. Its complement identifies the content, while context explains its source and significance.
So Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many, the net was not torn.
The net is full of 153 large fish after Jesus directs the disciples' cast, and its unbroken condition underscores the narrated abundance.
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
Paul describes people as full of many named evils within an argument about humanity's refusal to honor God and resulting disorder.
I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
Paul's confidence that Roman believers are full of goodness and knowledge grounds their ability to instruct one another while he still offers a bold reminder.
But no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
James calls the untamed tongue full of deadly poison, portraying the destructive reach of speech that curses people made in God's likeness.
But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.
Wisdom from above is full of mercy and good fruit, so its fullness becomes visible in peaceable, gentle, sincere conduct.
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Greek word. Full to the brim with something; emphasizes completeness or saturation rather than mere presence.
Full to the brim with something; emphasizes completeness or saturation rather than mere presence.
full: with genitive of thing(s), Jhn.19:29 21:11, Jas.3:8; metaphorically, of thoughts and feelings, Mat.23:28, Rom.1:29 15:14, 2Pe.2:14, Jas.3:17 (cf. Pr, l.with).
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How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 6 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
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μεστός is of uncertain origin - no further derivation.
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G3324 is an adjective of condition, not a complete theory of cause. John can use it for a net holding many fish in a resurrection appearance, where the abundance serves the narrated sign and shared meal without promising prosperity to every disciple. Paul can use it negatively in Romans 1 for lives characterized by an array of evils, then positively in Romans 15 for believers characterized by goodness and knowledge and able to instruct one another.
The later confidence does not erase Paul's earlier teaching about universal sin, and it does not make the Roman church incapable of receiving correction, since he immediately explains his bold reminder. James sharpens the contrast through speech and wisdom. The tongue is full of deadly poison when blessing God and cursing image-bearers come from the same mouth, while wisdom from above is full of mercy and good fruit because it is pure, peaceable, gentle, accommodating, impartial, and sincere.
Fullness is therefore tested by its named content and observable fruit. Teachers should resist turning the adjective into a spiritual technique, a diagnosis of another person's essence, or a synonym for Spirit filling and intoxication.
Jas.3.17
G3324 is an adjective whose case, number, and gender agree with the noun it describes. The local forms modify people, a net, a tongue, and wisdom; an accompanying genitive or content phrase specifies what the subject is full of.
The Old Testament often evaluates fullness by what fills a place, vessel, mouth, or community, whether provision, violence, wisdom, or God's glory. G3324 continues that content-sensitive pattern in the New Testament, but it is not a direct equivalent for every Hebrew verb of filling or every later doctrine of fullness.