threvw threvw, thrw'; imperfect ejthvroun; future thrhvsw; 1 aorist ejthvrhsa; perfect tethvrhka, 3 person plural tethrhvkasin ( R G) and tethvrhkan (ibid. L T Tr WH (see givnomai, at the beginning)); passive, present throu'mai; imperfect ejthroumhn; perfect tethvrhmai; 1 aorist ejthrhvqhn; (throv", found only once, Aeschylus suppl. 248, where it is doubtful whether it means `guarding' or `watching'), from Pindar, Sophocles, Thucydides down; the Septuagint several times for rm'v;, rx'n:, etc.; to attend to carefully, take care of; i. e. a. properly, to guard: tina, a prisoner, ,; ; passive, ; (24:23); , (b); tiv, ; oiJ throu'nte" ((R. V.) the watchers) the guards, (). b. metaphorically, to keep: tina, one in that state in which he is, thvn eJautou' parqevnon, his own virgin daughter, namely, as a virgin i. e. unmarried, ; eJautovn, himself such as he is, i. e. begotten of God, (but here T Tr WH aujtovn); with a predicate accusative added: aJgnovn, ; a[spilon ajpov tou' kovsmou, ; ajbarh' tivni, (aJploun, Antoninus 6, 30; tina a[mempton tw'/ Qew'/, Sap. ); tiv with a predicate accusative (but see in c. below); passive, throu'mai, with an adverb, ajmevmptw", ; with a dative of the person, Cristw'/, devoted to Christ (Winer's Grammar, 421 (392)), ; threi'n tina ejn tivni: to keep in i. e. cause one to persevere or stand firm in a thing: ejn tw'/ ojnovmati Qeou' (see p. 447b bottom), f; ejn ajgavph Qeou', ; tina ejk tivno", by guarding to cause one to escape in safety out of etc.: ejk tou' ponhrou', out of the power and assaults of Satan, (cf. Buttmann, 327 (281); Winer's Grammar, 410 (383)); ejk th'" w{ra" tou' peirasmou', . to keep: i. e. not to leave, thvn ajrchvn, ; not to throw away, tav iJmavtia, . to hold firmly: thvn eJnovthta tou' pneuvmato", ; anything as a mental deposit, thvn pivstin, ; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 536 (499); Buttmann, 78 (68)). to show oneself to be actually holding a thing fast, i. e. c. to observe: namely, pw'" ktl., ; tiv ; (Rec.); thvn paravdosin, (WH (rejected) marginal reading sthvshte) (tav ejk paradosew" tw'n patevrwn, Josephus, Antiquities 13, 10, 6); tovn novmon, and Rec. in ; ; tov savbbaton, the command respecting sabbath-keeping, ; tav" ejntolav" (of either God or Christ), ; ,; ; f; ,; <<ref:BHS/GNT_1Jo