- Transliteration: Tereo

- Phonetic: tay-reh'-o

- Definition:

1. to attend to carefully, take care of

a. to guard

b. metaph. to keep, one in the state in which he is

c. to observe

d. to reserve: to undergo something

- Origin: from teros (a watch, perhaps akin to G2334" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2334)

- TDNT entry: 10:20,1

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From τηρός teros (a watch; perhaps akin to G2334" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2334); to guard (from loss or injury properly by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from G5442" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5442 which is properly to prevent escaping; and from G2892" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2892 which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus) that is to note (a prophecy; figuratively to fulfil a command); by implication to detain (in custody; figuratively to maintain); by extension to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively to keep unmarried): - hold fast keep (-er) (ob- pre- re) serve watch.