Lexical Summary meletaō: to care for, practice, study Original Word: μελετάωTransliteration: meletaō Phonetic Spelling: (mel-et-ah'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to care for, practice, study Meaning: to care for, practice, study Strong's Concordance imagine, premeditate. From a presumed derivative of melo; to take care of, i.e. (by implication) revolve in the mind -- imagine, (pre-)meditate. see GREEK melo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3191: μελετάωμελετάω, 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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