- Transliteration: meletao

- Phonetic: mel-et-ah'-o

- Definition:

1. to care for, attend to carefully, practise

2. to meditate i.e. to devise, contrive

a. used of the Greeks of the meditative pondering and the practice of orators and rhetoricians

- Origin: from a presumed derivative of G3199" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3199

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From a presumed derivative of G3199" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3199; to take care of that is (by implication) revolve in the mind: - imagine (pre-) meditate.