King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G3191
Transliteration: meletaō
Phonetic Spelling: (mel-et-ah'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to care for, practice, study
Meaning: to care for, practice, study
μελετάω, 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,
Word 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).