Continuance
תְּדִירָאStrong’s H8411tedira (te-di-ra)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tedira is the Aramaic word usually translated “continuance”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.”
Meaning
- Continuance, continuity, perpetuityconstantly (as adverb)
How it's translated
- in continuance 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
Aramaic dictionary
תְּדִירָא tedira · continuance
1) continuance, continuity, perpetuity 1a) constantly (as adverb)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “continuance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONTINUANCE, noun
[See Continue.]
- A holding on or remaining in a particular state, or in a course or series.
- Perseverance; as, no excuse will justify a continuance in sin.“By patient continuance in well doing” Romans 2:7
- Abode; residence; as, during our continuance in Paris.
- Succession uninterrupted; continuation; a prolonging of existence; as, the brute regards the continuance of his species.
All definitions
- Progression of time.“In thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned” Psalms 139:16
- In law, the deferring of a suit, or the giving of a day for the parties to a suit to appear.
- In the United States, the deferring of a trial or suit from one stated term of the court to another.
- Continuity; resistance to a separation of parts; a holding together. [Not used.]
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.