To keep
διατηρέωStrong’s G1301diatēreō
Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament
In short
Diatēreō is the Greek word usually translated “was treasuring up” and “keeping”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.
“And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.”
Meaning
Usually translated “was treasuring up” and “keeping”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- was treasuring up 1
- keeping 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 1
- Acts 1
2 books in all.
Greek dictionary
διατηρέω diatēreō · to keep
δια-τηρέω, -ῶ [in LXX for שָׁמַר, נָצַר, etc.; before ἀπό (for מִן), as in Psa.12:7 (8) ;] to keep carefully: Luk.2:51; before ἐκ, Act.15:29.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “keep” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
KEEP, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive kept. [Latin habeo, and capio.]
- To hold; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose or part with; as, to keep a house or a farm; to keep any thing in the memory, mind or heart.
- To have in custody for security or preservation.
- To preserve; to retain.
- To preserve from falling or from danger; to protect; to guard or sustain.“And behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee” Genesis 28:15
All definitions and other forms of “keep”
- To hold or restrain from departure; to detain.
- To tend; to have the care of.“And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it” Genesis 2:15
- To tend; to feed; to pasture; as, to keep a flock of sheep or a herd of cattle in a yard or in a field.
- To preserve in any tenor or state. keep a stiff rein.
- To regard; to attend to.
- To hold in any state; as, to keep in order.
- To continue any state, course or action; as, to keep silence; to keep the same road or the same pace; to keep reading or talking; to keep a given distance.
- To practice; to do or perform; to obey; to observe in practice; not to neglect or violate; as, to keep the laws, statutes or commandments of God.
- To fulfill; to perform; as, to keep one's word, promise or covenant.
- To practice; to use habitually; as, to keep bad hours.
- To copy carefully.
- To observe or solemnize.
- To board; to maintain; to supply with necessaries of life.
- To have in the house; to entertain; as, to keep lodgers.
- To maintain; not to intermit; as, to keep watch or guard.
- To hold in one's own bosom; to confine to one's own knowledge; not to disclose or communicate to others; not to betray; as, to keep a secret; to keep one's own counsel.
- To have in pay; as, to keep a servant.“I will keep nothing back from you” Jeremiah 42:4
- To restrain;; to prevent from advancing.“KEEP back thy servant also from presumptuous sins” Psalms 19:13
- To reserve; to withhold; not to deliver. Acts 5:3
- To conceal; not to tell or disclose.
- To restrain; to curb.
- To maintain; to continue; to hinder from ceasing.
- To remain in the house; to be confined.
KEEP, verb intransitive
To remain in any state; as, to keep at a distance; to keep aloft; to keep near; to keep in the house; to keep before or behind; to keep in favor; to keep out of company, or out of reach.
- To last; to endure; not to perish or be impaired.
- To lodge; to dwell; to reside for a time.
KEEP, noun
Custody; guard. [Little used.]
- Colloquially, case; condition; as in good keep
- Guardianship; restraint. [Little used.]
- A place of confinement; in old castles, the dungeon.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.