Greek verb · G3191
μελετάω
meletaomel-et-ah'-o
with genitive, to care for (Hes.).; C. accusative to attend to; to study, ponder
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: meletáō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3191is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3191
to take care of, i.e. (by implication) revolve in the mind
The King James renders it: imagine, (pre-)meditate.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
meletao is rendered "with genitive, to care for (Hes.).; C. accusative to attend to; to study, ponder". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "with genitive, to care for (Hes.).".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 4:25You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Acts 4:25ἐμελέτησαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's two uses is in Acts.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word three senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: with genitive, to care for (Hes.)., and C. accusative to attend to, and to study, ponder.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| with genitive, to care for (Hes.). | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereActs 4:25You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant… |
| C. accusative to attend topractise | Tagged as
| Where1 Timothy 4:15Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all. |
| to study, ponderAct.4:25 (LXX) 1Ti.4:15 (AV | Tagged as
| WhereActs 4:25You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐμελέτησαν1
- μελέτα1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
- verb · present active, command · 2nd person singular1V-PAM-2S
Acts
one use
You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- ἐμελέτησανemeletesanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: did devise
1 Timothy
one use
Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.
- μελέταmeletaverb · present active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do ponder
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.