G3191
μελετάω
to meditate/plot
μελετάω, -ῶ (μελέτη, care), [in LXX chiefly for הָגָה m ;] __1. with genitive, to care for (Hes.). __2. C. accusative to attend to, practise: 1Ti.4:15 (RV, be diligent in; cf. Souter in Exp., VIII, vi, 429, but see infr.). __3. to study, ponder: Act.4:25 (LXX) 1Ti.4:15 (AV, meditate on; cf. CGT, in l, but see supr.; cf. προ-μελετάω).† (AS)
The KJV translates G3191 in the following manner:
imagine (2x), premeditate (2x), upon (2x)
Full Thayer's lexicon entry
μελετάω — meletáō
μελετάω, μελέτω; 1 aorist ἐμελέτησα; (from μελέτη care, practice); especially frequent in Greek writings from Sophocles and Thucydides down; the Sept. chiefly for הָגָה; to care for, attend to carefully, practise: τί, 1Ti 4:15 (R. V. be diligent in); to meditate equivalent to to devise, contrive: Act 4:25 from Psa 2:1; used by the Greeks of the meditative pondering and the practice of orators and rhetoricians, as μελετᾶν τήν ἀπολογίαν ὑπέρ ἑαυτῶν, Demosthenes, p. 1129, 9 (cf. Passow, under the word,
d. (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 2 and III. 4 b.)), which usage seems to have been in the writer's mind in Mar 13:11 (R L brackets Compare: προμελετάω).
3 occurrences
Mark (1), Acts (1), I Timothy (1)