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διατηρέω

diatēréō · G1301 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to avoid, to keep from doing

    To keep oneself from doing something, with the implication of duration

    Examples

    Acts 15:29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from acts of sexual immorality; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
שָׁמַר shâmar · H8104 · to observe, to watch, to pay attention
שָׁמַר (shâmar, H8104) is the standard Hebrew verb for 'keep, guard, observe' and serves as the primary translation equivalent for διατηρέω (diatēréō, G1301) 'to watch thoroughly/observe strictly' in LXX contexts, sharing the core semantic range of careful preservation and strict observance.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To avoid, to keep from doing13.153
Used of carefully abstaining from certain practices, as of the apostolic decree's instruction to keep away from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality in Acts 15:29.
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

τηρέω tēréō · G5083 · to cause to continue, to retain, to keep · 71×παρατηρέω paratēréō · G3906 · to watch closely, to guard, to observe · 6×συντηρέω syntēréō · G4933 · to keep together, to preserve both, to cause oneself to be fully aware of · 3×τήρησις tḗrēsis · G5084 · to guard, to keep watch, custody · 3×διατηρέωdiatēréō · G1301παρατήρησις paratḗrēsis · G3907 · to watch closely, to guard · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon διατήρω; 3 person singular imperfect διετήρει; to keep continually or carefully (see διά,…
διατήρω; 3 person singular imperfect διετήρει; to keep continually or carefully (see διά, C. 2): Lk 2:51 (Gen 37:11); ἐμαυτόν ἐκ τίνος (cf. τηρεῖν ἐκ τίνος, Jn 17:15), to keep oneself (pure) from a thing, Acts 15:29; ἀπό τίνος for שָׁמַר followed by מִן, Psalm 11:8. (Plato, Demosthenes, Polybius, others.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Happen2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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