Dictionaries :: Meditate

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Meditate:

primarily, "to care for" (akin to melete, "care;" cp. melei, "it is a care"), denotes

(a) "to attend to, practice," 1Ti 4:15, RV, "be diligent in" (AV, "meditate upon"); to practice is the prevalent sense of the word, and the context is not against this significance in the RV rendering; some mss. have it in Mar 13:11;

(b) "to ponder, imagine," Act 4:25.
See IMAGINE.

Meditate:

"to premediate," is used in Luk 21:14.

Note: In the corresponding passage in Mar 13:11, the most authentic mss. have the verb promerimnao, "to be anxious beforehand" (RV); see No. 1.