This verb can describe bringing something to its end or accomplishing what is intended. Luke says the days of Jesus' wilderness temptation ended, and later says the devil finished every temptation before departing until an opportune time.
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This verb can describe bringing something to its end or accomplishing what is intended. Luke says the days of Jesus' wilderness temptation ended, and later says the devil finished every temptation before departing until an opportune time.
The BSB source-word alignment has 6 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include had ended (1), had finished (1), I will make (1), over (1), thoroughly (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Mark 13:4. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (2), Acts (1), Hebrews (1), Mark (1).
This verb can describe bringing something to its end or accomplishing what is intended. Luke says the days of Jesus' wilderness temptation ended, and later says the devil finished every temptation before departing until an opportune time. Acts names seven days that were almost over when Paul was seized in the temple. Hebrews uses the verb in God's promise to make a new covenant, within its account of Jesus' superior ministry.
These contexts range from elapsed periods to completed actions and an announced covenant. The particular subject and object determine what is accomplished. A completed episode is not necessarily the end of every future event of its kind. Read the remaining time qualifications and promises before treating completion as an unrestricted finality claim.
Wilderness temptation, an almost-finished period at the temple, and the promised new covenant demonstrate ending and accomplishment in distinct temporal, narrative, and theological settings.
When the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time.
The devil's completion of every temptation is followed by departure until an opportune time, so the verse does not announce the end of all future opposition.
When the seven days were almost over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,
The seven days are almost over when Paul is seized; the wording supplies a time marker without saying the anticipated period finished peacefully.
But God found fault with the people and said: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
God's promise to make a new covenant is quoted within Hebrews' account of Jesus' better ministry and covenant mediation.
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Greek word. to complete entirely; generally, to execute (literally or figuratively)
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
7 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
I fulfill, accomplish
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How mood, tense, and voice shift the force of this verb in context.
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How this verb appears across 5 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
Clause data: MACULA Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0) · SBLGNT (Logos/SBL, CC BY 4.0)
συντελέω is built from these roots:
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Luke's sentence offers a direct safeguard against an overextended word study. The devil finishes the temptations in that episode, yet the same verse specifies a departure until an opportune time. The completed action and the remaining opposition can therefore coexist. Acts makes a different distinction: seven days are almost over when a hostile crowd seizes Paul.
Near completion is a narrative setting, not a promise that an intended course will finish unhindered. Hebrews introduces a third use, God's making a new covenant within an argument about Jesus' more excellent ministry. The verb contributes to that promise, but the covenant's content comes from the whole quotation and exposition. Teach what the text actually completes or accomplishes rather than turning the word into an independent doctrine of finality.
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The licensed Greek range includes finish and accomplish. Hebrews 8:8's direct row is translated I will make; that contextual wording should be retained rather than replaced with a mechanical finish gloss.
Hebrews explicitly quotes a new-covenant promise, and Romans explicitly invokes Isaiah; those connections are established by their surrounding texts. The shared accomplishment verb neither proves every Old Testament fulfillment nor identifies the same event in all six direct witnesses.