Lexical Summary diateleō: to accomplish thoroughly, to persist Original Word: διατελέωTransliteration: diateleō Phonetic Spelling: (dee-at-el-eh'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to accomplish thoroughly, to persist Meaning: to accomplish thoroughly, to persist Strong's Concordance continue. From dia and teleo; to accomplish thoroughly, i.e. (subjectively) to persist -- continue. see GREEK dia see GREEK teleo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1300: διατελέωδιατελέω, διατέλω; to bring thoroughly to an end, accomplish, (cf. διά, C. 2); with the addition of τόν βίον, τόν χρόνον, etc., it is joined to participles or adjectives and denotes the continuousness of the act or state expressed by the prcp. or adjective (as in Herodotus 6, 117; 7, 111; Plato, Apology, p. 31 a.); oftener, however, without the accusative it is joined with the same force simply to the participles or adjectives: thus, ἄσιτοι διατελεῖτε, ye continue fasting, constantly fast, Acts 27:33 (so ἀσφαλεστερος (others, ἀσφαλεστατος) διατελει, Thucydides 1, 34; often in Xenophon; Winers Grammar, 348 (326); (Buttmann, 304 (261))). |
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