STRONGS G1304:
													
												
									    		διατρίβω; imperfect 
διέτριβον; 1 aorist 
διέτριψα; 
to rub between, rub hard, (properly, Homer, Iliad 11, 847, others); 
to wear away, consume; 
χρόνον or 
ἡμέρας, 
to spend, pass time: 
Acts 14:3, 
28; 
Acts 16:12; 
Acts 20:6; 
Acts 25:6, 
14 (
Leviticus 14:8; Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, others); simply 
to stay, tarry, [cf. Buttmann, 145 (127); Winer's Grammar, 593 (552)]: 
John 3:22; 
John 11:54 [WH Tr text 
ἔμεινεν]; 
Acts 12:19; 
Acts 14:18 (Lachmann edition min.); 
Acts 15:35; (Judith 10:2; 2 Macc. 14:23, and often in secular authors from Homer, Iliad 19, 150 down). 
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