Teresis means “hold” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5084 — nadan (“sheath”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5084 τήρησις (teresis) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. teresis (tay'-ray-sis) n. 1. a watching 2. (figuratively) observance It has 9 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include hold and prison. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
teresis (tay'-ray-sis) n. 1. a watching 2. (figuratively) observance 3. (concretely) a prison [from G5083] KJV: hold Root(s): G5083
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5084. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
jail/keeping
Usage: τήρησις, -εως, ἡ (τηρέω), [in LXX: Wis.6:18, (Sir.32:23), 1Ma.5:18, 2Ma.3:40, 3Ma.5:44 * ;] __1. a watching, hence, imprisonment, ward (see Deiss., BS, 267): Act.4:3 5:18. __2. a keeping: τ. ἐντολῶν (cf. Sir, Wis, ll. with, and see Westc. on 1Jn.2:3.), 1Co.7:19.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render teresis, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5084 (τήρησις) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be a giant upon the earth.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
So he left Joseph the son of Zechariah, and Azariah, captains of the people, with the remnant of the host in Judea to keep it.
And the things concerning Heliodorus, and the keeping of the treasury, fell out on this sort.
Joyfully his friends broke up, together with his kinsmen; and, trusting in his determination, arranged their forces in guard at the most convenient places of the city.
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5084.
And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be a giant upon the earth.
And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
So he left Joseph the son of Zechariah, and Azariah, captains of the people, with the remnant of the host in Judea to keep it.
And the things concerning Heliodorus, and the keeping of the treasury, fell out on this sort.
Joyfully his friends broke up, together with his kinsmen; and, trusting in his determination, arranged their forces in guard at the most convenient places of the city.
And love is the keeping of her laws; And the giving heed unto her laws is the assurance of incorruption;
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5084, grouped by book.
Teresis (Strong's G5084) is a Greek word most simply glossed "hold". teresis (tay'-ray-sis) n. 1. a watching 2. (figuratively) observance
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's G5084 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5084 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hold and prison. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5084, with linked reader references where each row is available.