Lexicon emmenó: to abide in, fig. to be true to, to persevere Original Word: ἐμμένωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: emmenó Phonetic Spelling: (em-men'-o) Short Definition: I remain or abide in, abide by, maintain Definition: I remain (abide) in, abide by, maintain, persevere in. HELPS word-Studies 1696 emménō (from 1772 /énnomos, "in a sphere" and 3306 /ménō, "remain, abide with") – properly, remain in a condition, steadfastly abide. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom en and menóDefinitionto abide in, fig. to be true to, to persevere NASB Translationabide (1), continue (2), stayed (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1696: ἐμμένωἐμμένω ( Tdf. ἐνμένω, Acts 14:22; see ἐν, III. 3); 1 aorist ἐνεμεινα; from Aeschylus and Herodotus down; ( Augustine, immaneo), to remain in, continue; a. properly, in a place: ἐν τίνι, Acts 28:30 T Tr WH. b. to persevere in anything, a state of mind, etc.; to hold fast, be true to, abide by, keep: τῇ πίστει, Acts 14:22 (νόμῳ, ὅρκοις, etc. in the Greek writings); ἐν τίνι (more rarely so in the classics, as ἐν ταῖς σπονδαις, Thucydides 4, 118; ἐν τῇ πίστει, Polybius 3, 70, 4): ἐν (so R G only) τοῖς γεγραμμένοις, Galatians 3:10 from Deuteronomy 27:26; ἐν τῇ διαθήκη, Hebrews 8:9 from Jeremiah 38:32 (). (Cf. Winer's Grammar, § 52, 4, 5.) STRONGS NT 1696a: ἐμμέσῳἐμμέσῳ, equivalent to ἐν μέσῳ (see μέσος, 2): Revelation 1:13; Revelation 2:1; Revelation 4:6; Revelation 5:6; Revelation 22:2, in Tdf. edition 7; (see his Proleg., p. xlviii. (but nowhere in edition 8, see the Proleg., p. 76f); cf. WHs Appendix, p. 150; B. 8).
Strong's continue. From en and meno; to stay in the same place, i.e. (figuratively) persevere -- continue. see GREEK en see GREEK meno |
