Word Summary
antanaplēroō: to fill up in turn
Original Word: ἀνταναπληρόωTransliteration: antanaplēroō
Phonetic Spelling: (an-tan-ap-lay-ro'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to fill up in turn
Meaning: to fill up in turn
Strong's Concordance
fill up.
From anti and anapleroo; to supplement -- fill up.
see GREEK anti
see GREEK anapleroo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 466: ἀνταναπληρόωἀνταναπληρόω,
ἀνταναπληρῶ; (
ἀντί and
ἀναπληρόω, which see);
to fill up in turn:
Colossians 1:24 (the meaning is, 'what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ to be borne by me, that I supply in order to repay the benefits which Christ conferred on me by filling up the measure of the afflictions laid upon him'); (Meyer, Ellicott, etc., explain the word (with
Wetstein (1752)) by '
ἀντί ὑστερήματοςsuccedit ἀναπληρωμα; but see
Lightfoot ad loc, who also quotes the passages where the word occurs). (
Demosthenes, p. 182, 22;
Dio Cassius, 44, 48;
Apollonius Dyscolus, de constr. orat. i. pp. 14, 1 (cf. Alexander
Buttmann (1873) at the passage); 114, 8; 258, 3; 337, 4.)