1 Peter 5:8
New Testament • 11 words with Strong's data
"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
σώφρων
sṓphrōn
safe (sound) in mind, i.e. self-controlled (moderate as to opinion or passion)
γρηγορεύω
grēgoreúō
to keep awake, i.e. watch (literally or figuratively)
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
צַר
tsar
narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble ; (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
הָלַךְ
hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
סָבִיב
çâbîyb
(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
דָּרַשׁ
dârash
properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship
Key Terms in This Verse
γρηγορεύω grēgoreúō
to keep awake, i.e. watch (literally or figuratively)
Study G1127 →σώφρων sṓphrōn
safe (sound) in mind, i.e. self-controlled (moderate as to opinion or passion)
Study G4998 →דָּרַשׁ dârash
properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship
Study H1875 →צַר tsar
narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble ; (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
Study H6862 →הָלַךְ hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Study H1980 →סָבִיב çâbîyb
(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
Study H5439 →Cross References
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Neither give place to the devil.
And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath bu...
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he...
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
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