παραθήκη
parathēkē · what is entrusted, deposit
Greek word · Strong’s number G3866 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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parathēkē (παραθήκη) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “what is entrusted, deposit”.
What is entrusted: a deposit given to someone to keep safe.
How to say it
pa·ra·thē·kē
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- What is left in someone's care to keep.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- deposit entrusted to you ×1
- what I have entrusted to him ×1
- what has been entrusted to you ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Timothy 6:20
O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, turning away from the profane empty chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge,
- 2 Timothy 1:12
for which reason I also suffer these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.
- 2 Timothy 1:14
Guard the good deposit entrusted to you through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.