Words the Bible translates as commit
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- paradidōmiπαραδίδωμιto hand over: to place a person or thing out of one's own keeping and into the power, custody, or care of someone else
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- to hand down: to pass on a teaching, account, or body of belief from one person or generation to the next
- pisteuōπιστεύωto believe: to take a message as true and lean one's whole self on the person it is about, above all on God and on Jesus
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- to entrust something to someone, or (when the subject is the receiver) to be put in charge of it as a trust
- prassōπράσσωto do, carry out, or practice something: to perform an action or keep up a pattern of conduct.
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- to exact, collect, or demand money owed: taxes, interest, or a debt.
- to fare, to be in a certain condition: how things stand or go for someone.
- paratithēmiπαρατίθημιto set before someone: to place food on the table for a guest, or lay a teaching out for a listener to consider
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- to entrust: to place something valuable into trustworthy hands to be guarded and given back or handed on
- galalגָּלַלto roll: to move something heavy by turning it over, or to be turned over and over
- masarמָסַרto commitnot studied yet
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