STRONGS G1961:
ἐπιμένω; (imperfect
ἐπέμενον); future
ἐπιμένω; 1 aorist
ἐπέμεινα;
to stay at or with; to tarry still; still to abide, to continue, remain;
a. properly, of tarrying in a place:
ἐν Ἐφέσῳ,
1 Corinthians 16:8;
ἐν τῇ σαρκί, to live still longer on earth
Philippians 1:24 (
G T WH omit
ἐν);
αὐτοῦ,
there, Acts 15:34 (
Rec.);
Acts 21:4 (Lachmann
αὐτοῖς); with the dative of thing:
τῇ σαρκί, to abide as it were a captive to life on earth,
Philippians 1:24 G T WH;
ἐπί τίνι, with one,
Acts 28:14 (
L T Tr WH παῥ);
πρός τινα, with one,
1 Corinthians 16:7;
Galatians 1:18; with specification of time how long:
Acts 10:48;
Acts 21:4,
10;
Acts 28:12,
14;
1 Corinthians 16:7.
b. tropically,
to persevere, continue; with the dative of the thing continued in (cf.
Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part ii., p. 10f):
τῇ ἁμαρτία,
Romans 6:1;
τῇ ἀπιστία,
Romans 11:23;
τῇ πίστει,
Colossians 1:23; in the work of teaching,
1 Timothy 4:16 (
τῷ μή ἀδικεῖν,
Xenophon, oec. 14, 7;
τῇ μνηστεία,
Aelian v. h. 10, 15); with the dative of the blessing for which one keeps himself fit:
τῇ χάριτι,
Acts 13:43 Rec.;
τῇ χρηστότητι,
Romans 11:22; with a participle denoting the action persisted in:
John 8:7 Rec.;
Acts 12:16; cf.
Buttmann, 299f (257); (
Winer's Grammar, § 54, 4).
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