Acts 2:1 Come or Fully Come

Terry Pruitt terrylpruitt at netzero.net
Sun Feb 18 20:45:46 EST 2001


    While I rarely read the KJV Bible anymore, but it was pointed out to me that the
KJV translates the word SUNEPLHROUNTO as "fully come".  In Acts 2:1 the NIV translates
the word SUNEPLHROUNTO simply as "come".  While I hold no special trust in the KJV
version over any other translation, I have looked up the word SUNEPLHROUNTO my handy
lexicon, Moulton, and checked out all its occurrences in my On-Line Bible.

    SUNEPLHROUNTO does means to "come".  In the New Testament it is used three times,
all three times by the writer Luke.   When he uses it in Luke 8:23 it is translated as
"filled" in KJV and "swamped" in the NIV.  It made me wonder if the word has a
connotative meaning of "a moment of expectation."  Three occurrences of a word is not
enough times to really determine how it was used in New Testament times.  In order to
really check out how the word was used, I suppose one would have to look how other
ancient writers used the word.
    Can some of you more mature in the Greek way check me out a here? Is there a
connotation of expectation in the word SUNEPLHROUNTO?  In other words, are the
translators of the KJV justified in saying "fully come?"

Terry L. Pruitt


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