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Strong's #3866 - παραθήκη
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- a deposit, a trust or thing consigned to one's faithful keeping
- used of the correct knowledge and pure doctrine of the gospel, to be held firmly and faithfully, and to be conscientiously delivered unto others
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παρα-θήκη, ἡ,
anything entrusted to one. deposit, Hdt. 6.86, 9.45, BGU 1004.15 (iii B. C.), LXX Leviticus 6:2 (5.21), Ps.-Phoc. 135, Ostr.Bodl. i 274 (i B. C.), SIG 742.51 (Ephesus, i B. C.); of persons, hostage, Hdt. 6.73.
παραθήκη, παραθηκης, ἡ (παρατίθημι, which see), a deposit, a trust or thing consigned to one's faithful keeping (Vulg. depositum): used of the correct knowledge and pure doctrine of the gospel, to be held firmly and faithfully, and to be conscientiously delivered unto others: 2 Timothy 1:12 (μου possessive genitive (the trust committed unto me; Rec.elz 1633 reads here παρακαταθήκη, which see)); G L T Tr WH in 1 Timothy 6:20 and 2 Timothy 1:14 (Leviticus 6:2, 4; 2 Macc. 3:10, 15; Herodotus 9, 45; (others)). In the Greek writings παρακαταθήκη (which see) is more common; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 312; Winer's Grammar, 102 (96).
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παρα -θήκη , -ης , ἡ
(< παρατίθημι ),
[in LXX: Leviticus 6:2; Leviticus 6:4 (Lev 5:21, 23) (H6487), and in Tob 10:13, 2 Maccabees 3:10; 2 Maccabees 3:15, v.l. for παρακαταθήκη (q.v.) *;]
a deposit or trust: 1 Timothy 6:20, 2 Timothy 1:12; 2 Timothy 1:14 (for exx. of this form, v. MM, Exp., iii, xviii).†
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";patriarch,"; directly transferred to the NT (e.g. Acts 2:29) from the LXX, where it was ";presumably formed . . . on the analogy of Heb. expressions with ר~אשׁ (‘head’) and שַׂר (‘prince’), denoting leaders of tribes or families"; (Kennedy Sources, p. 114).
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