Dictionaries :: Reserve

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Reserve:

"to guard, keep, preserve, give heed to," is translated "to reserve,"

(a) with a happy issue, 1Pe 1:4;

(b) with a retributive issue, 2Pe 2:4; 2:9, AV (RV, "keep"); 2:17; 3:7; Jud 1:6, AV (RV, "hath kept"); 1:13;

(c) with the possibility either of deliverance or execution, Act 25:21, AV (RV, "kept").
See KEEP.

Note: In Rom 11:4, AV, kataleipo, "to leave behind, leave remaining," is translated "I have reserved" (RV, "I have left").
See LEAVE.