παρατηρέω, 
παρατήρω: imperfect 3 person plural 
παρετήρουν; 1 aorist 
παρετήρησα; middle, present 
παρατηροῦμαι; imperfect 3 person plural 
παρετηροῦντο; properly, 
to stand beside and watch (cf. 
παρά, IV. 1); 
to watch assiduously, observe carefully; 
a. to watch, attend to, with the eyes: 
τά ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ γιγνόμενα; of auguries, 
Dio Cassius, 38, 13; 
τινα, one, to see what he is going to do (
Xenophon, mem. 3, 14, 4); contextually in a bad sense, 
to watch insidiously, Luke 20:20 (
Tr marginal reading 
ἀποχωρησαντες) (joined with 
ἐνεδρεύειν, 
Polybius 17, 3, 2); 
τινα (
Polybius 11, 9, 9; the 
Sept. Psalm 36:12 (
Psalms 37:12); Susanna 16) followed by the interrogative 
εἰ, 
Mark 3:2 R G T WH Tr text; Luke vi.; 
Rec.; middle 
to watch for oneself: 
Mark 3:2 L Tr marginal reading; 
Luke 6:7 L T Tr WH ((in both passive followed by interrogative 
εἰ)); 
Luke 14:1; active with an accusative of place (
Polybius 1, 29, 4): 
τάς πύλας (followed by 
ὅπως, cf. 
Buttmann, 237 (205)), 
Acts 9:24 R G, where 
L T Tr WH give middle 
παρετηροῦντο. 
b. to observe equivalent to 
to keep scrupulously; to neglect nothing requisite to the religious observance of: 
ἑβδομάδας, 
Josephus, Antiquities 3, 5, 5; (
τήν τῶν σαββάτων ἡμέραν. id. 14, 10, 25); middle (
for oneself, i. e. 
for one's salvation), 
ἡμέρας, 
μῆνας, 
καιρούς, 
Galatians 4:10 (
ὅσα προσταττουσιν, 
οἱ νόμοι, 
Dio Cassius, 53, 10; (
τά εἰς βρῶσιν οὐ νενομισμενα, 
Josephus, contra Apion 2, 39, 2)). 
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