Lexicon askeó: to practice, endeavor Original Word: ἀσκέωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: askeó Phonetic Spelling: (as-keh'-o) Short Definition: I train, practice, exercise Definition: I train, practice, exercise. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. verb Definitionto practice, endeavor NASB Translationdo my best (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 778: ἀσκέωἀσκέω, ἀσκῶ; 1. to form by art, to adorn; in Homer. 2. to exercise (oneself), take pains, labor, strive; followed by an infinitive (as in Xenophon, mem. 2, 1, 6; Cyril 5, 5, 12, etc.): Acts 24:16.
Strong's exercise. Probably from the same as skeuos; to elaborate, i.e. (figuratively) train (by implication, strive) -- exercise. see GREEK skeuos |
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