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). Forms and Transliterations εμελέτα εμελέτησα εμελετήσαμεν εμελετησαν εμελέτησαν ἐμελέτησαν εμελέτων μελετα μελετά μελέτα μελετάν μελέτας μελετάτε μελέτη μελετήσει μελετήσεις μελετήσω μελετητή μελετών μελετώσι emeletesan emeletēsan emelétesan emelétēsan meleta melétaLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts |