Strong's #3306: meno (pronounced men'-o)
a primary verb; to stay (in a given place, state, relation or expectancy):--abide, continue, dwell, endure, be present, remain, stand, tarry (for), X thine own.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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menō
1) to remain, abide
1a) in reference to place
1a1) to sojourn, tarry
1a2) not to depart
1a2a) to continue to be present
1a2b) to be held, kept, continually
1b) in reference to time
1b1) to continue to be, not to perish, to last, endure
1b1a) of persons, to survive, live
1c) in reference to state or condition
1c1) to remain as one, not to become another or different
2) to wait for, await one
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a root word
Citing in TDNT: 4:574, 581
Usage:
This word is used 121 times:
1 John 2:24: "ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also"
1 John 2:24: "you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and"
1 John 2:27: "have received of him abideth in you, and ye need"
1 John 2:27: "and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."
1 John 2:28: "And now, little children, abide in him; that, when"
1 John 3:6: "Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth"
1 John 3:9: "for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot"
1 John 3:14: "He that loveth not his brother abideth in death."
1 John 3:15: "murderer hath eternal life abiding in him."
1 John 3:17: "bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God"
1 John 3:24: "he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he"
1 John 3:24: "hereby we know that he abideth in us, by"
1 John 4:12: "we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his"
1 John 4:13: "Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and"
1 John 4:15: "the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and"
1 John 4:16: "is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in"
1 John 4:16: "he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God"
2 John 1:2: "For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be"
2 John 1:9: "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine"
2 John 1:9: "hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ,"
Revelation 17:10: "he cometh, he must continue a short space."
