Finish
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to bring to an end" (telos, "an end"), in the Passive Voice, "to be finished," is translated by the verb "to finish" in Matthew 13:53; 19:1; 26:1; John 19:28 , where the RV "are ... finished" brings out the force of the perfect tense (the same word as in ver. 30, "It is finished"), which is missed in the AV; as Stier says, "the word was in His heart before He uttered it;" 2—Timothy 4:7; Revelation 10:7; 11:7; 20:3 , RV, "should be finished" (AV, "fulfilled"), Revelation 20:5,7 , RV, "finished" (AV, "expired"). In Revelation 15:1 the verb is rightly translated "is finished," RV, see Fill , Note (2). In 15:8 the RV, "should be finished" corrects the AV, "were fulfilled." See Accomplish.
akin to the adjective teleios, "complete, perfect," and to No. 1, denotes "to bring to an end" in the sense of completing or perfecting, and is translated by the verb "to finish" in John 4:34; 5:36; 17:4; Acts 20:24 . See Consecrate , Fulfil Perfect.
lit., "to finish out," i.e., "completely" (ek, "out," intensive, and No. 1), is used in Luke 14:29,30 .
"to bring through to an end," is rendered "finish" in 2—Corinthians 8:6 , AV (RV, "complete"). See Accomplish.
"to bring to fulfillment, to effect," is translated "finishing" (AV, "will finish") in Romans 9:28 . See Complete.
is translated "had finished," in Acts 21:7 , of the voyage from Tyre to Ptolemais. As this is so short a journey, and this verb is intensive in meaning, some have suggested the rendering "but we having (thereby) completed our voyage (i.e., from Macedonia, 20:6), came from Tyre to Ptolemais." In late Greek writers, however, the verb is used with the meaning "to continue," and this is the probable sense here.
"to become, to come into existence," is translated "were finished" in Hebrews 4:3 , i.e., were brought to their predestined end.
Luke 14:28Complete. James 1:15 Hebrews 12:2
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary [2]
This is a blessed word in Scripture language in application to the Lord Jesus Christ. The prophet Daniel, when proclaiming to the church the time of the Messiah's coming, added this also, as the distinguishing feature of his mission. He was to be anointed as the Most Holy, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sin. ( Daniel 9:24) And Zechariah no less, while describing him as the great Zerubbabel declared, that the same hands which laid the foundation of the spiritual temple should also finish it. ( Zechariah 4:9) And the Lord Jesus himself, speaking in his mediatorial character as the Sent and Servant of Jehovah in the close of his ministry, lifted his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." ( John 17:4) And in confirmation of the same, as the last act on the cross, he bowed his sacred head, and said, "It is finished!" ( John 19:30) Think reader, what a blessed consideration this is to the mind of a poor self. condemned sinner, conscious that he can do nothing but sin; and cannot put forth a single act of his own to obtain salvation. Oh! how truly refreshing to the soul thus to behold Christ as the lawfulfiller, the sum and substance of all the types and sacrifices, and JEHOVAH'S salvation, to the ends of the earth. Jesus! I would say, add one blessing more to thy finished salvation; and "work in me both to will and to do of thy good pleasure."
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( v. t.) To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish.
(2): ( v. i.) To come to an end; to terminate.
(3): ( v. t.) To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.
(4): ( v. i.) To end; to die.
(5): ( n.) That which finishes, puts an end to/ or perfects.
(6): ( n.) The joiner work and other finer work required for the completion of a building, especially of the interior. See Inside finish, and Outside finish.
(7): ( n.) The labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like.
(8): ( n.) See Finishing coat, under Finishing.
(9): ( n.) The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc.
(10): ( n.) Completion; - opposed to start, or beginning.
King James Dictionary [4]
Fin'Ish, L finio, from finis, an end.
1. To arrive at the end of, in performance to complete as, to finish a house to finish a journey.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished. Genesis 2 .
2. To make perfect.
Episodes, taken separately, finish nothing.
3. To bring to an end to end to put an end to.
Seventy weeks are determined on thy people, and on thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and make an end of sins.
Daniel 9 .
4. To perfect to accomplish to polish to the degree of excellence intended. In this sense it is frequently used in the participle of the perfect tense as an adjective. It is a finished performance. He is a finished scholar.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
fin´ish ( כּלה , kālāh ; τελέω , teléō , with other Hebrew and Greek words): The proper sense of "finish" is to end or complete; so for "finish," "finished," in the King James Version, there is sometimes met with in the Revised Version (British and American) the change to "complete" ( Luke 14:28; 2 Corinthians 8:6 ), "accomplish" ( John 4:34; John 5:36; John 17:4 ), "made an end of doing" ( 2 Chronicles 4:11; compare 2 Chronicles 24:14 ), etc. In James 1:15 , for "sin, when it is finished," the Revised Version (British and American) reads "sin when it is full-grown," corresponding to "conceived" of the previous clause. On the other hand, the Revised Version (British and American) has frequently "finished" for other words, as "ended" ( Genesis 2:2; Deuteronomy 31:30 ), "accomplished" ( John 19:28 ), "filled up," "fulfilled" ( Revelation 15:1 , Revelation 15:8 ), etc. The grandest Scriptural example of the word is the cry upon the cross, "It is finished" ( Tetélestai , John 19:30 ).
