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To stay

καταμένωStrong’s G2650

katamenō

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

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Katamenō is the Greek word usually translated “staying”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.”
Acts 1:13 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “staying”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • staying 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Acts 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    καταμένω katamenō · to stay

    κατα-μένω [in LXX for יָשַׁב (Num.20:1, al.), etc. ;] to remain permanently, abide: Act.1:13, 1Co.16:6, WH (παραμ-, T, EV).† (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “stay” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    STAY, verb intransitive

    preterit tense staid, for stayed. [Latin, to stand.]

    1. To remain; to continue in a place; to abide for any indefinite time.
    2. To continue in a state.
    3. To wait; to attend; to forbear to act.“Would ye stay for them from having husbands?” Ruth 1:13
    4. To stop; to stand still.
    All definitions and other forms of “stay”
    1. To dwell.
    2. To rest; to rely; to confide in; to trust.“Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression, and stay thereon--” Isaiah 30:12

    STAY, verb transitive

    preterit tense and participle passive staid, for stayed.

    1. To stop; to hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain.
    2. To delay; to obstruct; to hinder from proceeding.
    3. To keep from departure; as, you might have staid me here.
    4. To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to hold up; to support.“Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands” Exodus 17:12
    5. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; as, to take a luncheon to stay the stomach.

    STAY, noun

    1. Continuance in a place; abode for a time indefinite; as, you make a short stay in this city.
    2. Stand; stop; cessation of motion or progression.
    3. Stop; obstruction; hinderance from progress.
    4. Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
    5. A fixed state.
    6. Prop; support.
    7. Steadiness of conduct.
    8. In the rigging of a ship, a large strong rope employed to support the mast, by being extended from its upper end to the stem of the ship.

    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.