μελετάω,
μελέτω; 1 aorist
ἐμελέτησα; (from
μελέτη care, practice); especially frequent in Greek writings from
Sophocles and
Thucydides down; the
Sept. chiefly for
הָגָה;
to care for, attend to carefully, practise:
τί,
1 Timothy 4:15 (
R. V. be diligent in);
to meditate equivalent to
to devise, contrive:
Acts 4:25 from
Psalm 2:1; used by the Greeks of the meditative pondering and the practice of orators and rhetoricians, as
μελετᾶν τήν ἀπολογίαν ὑπέρ ἑαυτῶν,
Demosthenes, p. 1129, 9 (cf.
Passow, under the word, d. (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 2 and III. 4 b.)), which usage seems to have been in the writer's mind in
Mark 13:11 (
R L brackets Compare:
προμελετάω).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's
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Psalms
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2:1
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Mark
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13:11
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Acts
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4:25
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1 Timothy
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4:15
