tērēsias

Strong’sG5084

a prison, observance

stem tērēsi-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

** τήρησις, -εως, ἡ

(< τηρέω), [in LXX: Wi 6:18, (Si 35 (32):23), I Mac 5:18, II Mac 3:40, III Mac 5:44 *;]

1. a watching, hence, imprisonment, ward (v. Deiss., BS, 267): Ac 4:3 5:18.

2. a keeping: τ. ἐντολῶν (cf. Sir, Wi, ll. c., and v. Westc. on I Jo 2:3.), I Co 7:19.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5084 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidtay'-ray-sis

a watching, i.e. (figuratively) observance, or (concretely) a prison

Fromfrom G5083;

King Jameshold.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

τήρ-ησις, εως, ἡ,
watching, safe-keeping, guarding, ἀφύλακτος ἡ τ. Refs 5th c.BC+; τῆς οἰκίας Refs 3rd c.AD+; ἀξιώματος Refs 5th c.BC+; [πλούτου] Refs 1st c.BC+; preservation, e.g. of health, Refs 2nd c.AD+; observance, νόμων, ἐντολῶν, LXX+NT+2nd c.BC+
2 vigilance, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 means of keeping or guarding, τὰς λιθοτομίας.., ἀσφαλεστάτην τ. the quarries.., the most secure place of custody, NT+5th c.BC+
II observing, observation, τῶν καθόλου συμβαινόντων (as Empiric term) Refs 2nd c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

custody1×keeping1×prison1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	tērēsias1×τήρησις	tērēsiais
object accusative	tērēsian1×τήρησιν	tērēsiain
direct address vocative	tērēsiar	tērēsiair
of, belonging to genitive	tērēsiau	tērēsiaiu
to, for dative	tērēsia1×τηρήσει	tērēsiai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

tērēsistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

tērēsia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

tērēsias“keeping”subjectnominative singular1×

1 Corinthians 7:19… kai tas akrobustias oudenem atō, alla tērēsias entolaiu theou.… is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

tērēsian“custody”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 4:3… autoi tain cheirain kai tithela eis tērēsian eis tan aurion, ate gar hesperas …… was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.

tērēsia“prison”to, fordative singular1×

Acts 5:18“prison”… toin apostoloin kai tithela autoin en tērēsia dēmosia.and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.