Lexical Summary stegō: to cover closely (so as to keep water out), generally to bear up under Original Word: στέγωTransliteration: stegō Phonetic Spelling: (steg'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to cover closely (so as to keep water out), generally to bear up under Meaning: to cover closely (so as to keep water out), generally to bear up under Strong's Concordance forbear, endureFrom stege; to roof over, i.e. (figuratively) to cover with silence (endure patiently) -- (for-)bear, suffer. see GREEK stege Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4722: στέγωστέγω; (allied with Latintego, toga, English deck, thatch, etc.; Curtius, § 155 Fick Part 3:590); to cover; 1. to protect or keep by covering, to preserve: Sophocles, Plato, Plutarch, others. 2. to cover over with silence; to keep secret; to hide, conceal: ταμα ἔπη, Euripides, Electr. 273; τόν λόγον, Polybius 8, 14, 5; for other examples see Passow, under the word, 1 b. β.; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 2); μωρός οὐ δυνήσεται λόγον στέξαι, Sir. 8:17; hence, ἡ ἀγάπη πάντα στέγει, 1 Corinthians 13:7, is explained by some, love covereth (so R. V. marginal reading), i. e. hides and excuses, the errors and faults of others; but it is more appropriately rendered (with other interpreters) beareth. For στέγω means 3. by covering to keep off something which threatens, to bear up against, hold out against, and so to endure, bear, forbear (τάς ἐνδείας, Philo in Flacc. § 9; many examples from Greek authors from Aeschylus down are given by Passow, under the word, 2; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, A. especially 3)): 1 Corinthians 9:12; 1 Corinthians 13:7; 1 Thessalonians 3:1, 5. |
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