Original Word: ἐμμένω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: emmenó
Phonetic Spelling: (em-men'-o)
Definition: to abide in, to be true to, to persevere
Usage: I remain (abide) in, abide by, maintain, persevere in.

1696 emménō (from 1772 /énnomos, "in a sphere" and 3306 /ménō, "remain, abide with") – properly, remain in a condition, steadfastly abide.

Word Origin
from en and menó
Definition
to abide in, fig. to be true to, to persevere
NASB Translation
abide (1), continue (2), stayed (1).

STRONGS NT 1696: ἐμμένω

ἐμμένω (Tdf. ἐνμένω, Acts 14:22; see ἐν, III. 3); 1 aorist ἐνεμεινα; from Aeschylus and Herodotus down; (Augustine,immaneo), to remain in, continue;

a. properly, in a place: ἐν τίνι, Acts 28:30 T Tr WH.

b. to persevere in anything, a state of mind, etc.; to hold fast, be true to, abide by, keep: τῇ πίστει, Acts 14:22 (νόμῳ, ὅρκοις, etc. in the Greek writings); ἐν τίνι (more rarely so in the classics, as ἐν ταῖς σπονδαις, Thucydides 4, 118; ἐν τῇ πίστει, Polybius 3, 70, 4): ἐν (so R G only) τοῖς γεγραμμένοις, Galatians 3:10 from Deuteronomy 27:26; ἐν τῇ διαθήκη, Hebrews 8:9 from Jeremiah 38:32 (). (Cf. Winer's Grammar, § 52, 4, 5.)

STRONGS NT 1696a: ἐμμέσῳἐμμέσῳ, equivalent to ἐν μέσῳ (see μέσος, 2): Revelation 1:13; Revelation 2:1; Revelation 4:6; Revelation 5:6; Revelation 22:2, in Tdf. edition 7; (see his Proleg., p. xlviii. (but nowhere in edition 8, see the Proleg., p. 76f); cf. WHs Appendix, p. 150; B. 8).

continue.

From en and meno; to stay in the same place, i.e. (figuratively) persevere -- continue.

see GREEK en

see GREEK meno

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