Greek noun (feminine) · G5084
τήρησις
teresistay'-ray-sis
a watching, hence, imprisonment, ward; a keeping
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tḗrēsis
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5084is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5084
a watching, i.e. (figuratively) observance, or (concretely) a prison
The King James renders it: hold.
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
teresis is rendered "a watching, hence, imprisonment, ward; a keeping". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a watching, hence, imprisonment, ward".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 4:3They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.
Acts 4:3τήρησιν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in Acts.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: a watching, hence, imprisonment, ward, and a keeping.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a watching, hence, imprisonment, ward(see Deiss., BS, 267): Act.4:3 5:18. | Tagged as
| WhereActs 4:3They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening… |
| a keeping | Tagged as
| Where1 Corinthians 7:19Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing… |
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 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- τηρήσει1
- τήρησιν1
- τήρησις1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Acts
two uses
They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.
- τήρησινteresinnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: custody
and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.
- τηρήσειtereseinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: jail
1 Corinthians
one use
Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.
- τήρησιςteresisnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: keeping
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.