UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: ἀσπίς

Sense 1: to keep safe, to cause to be protected, to protect, to hide

Semantic entry: 21.12

Semantic domains: Danger, Risk, Safe, Save

Subdomains: Safe, Free from Danger

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of ὑπερασπίζω ‘to hold a shield over,’ not occurring in the NT) to cause to be safe or protected by hiding, in some contexts with the intent of not being found

Notes: This word is found as a variant reading only: ὑπερασπίζειν αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τοῦ κόσμου ‘to keep them safe from the world’ RV JAM 1:27 · LV JAM 1:27 · Read together JAM 1:27 (apparatus).

JAM 1:27: RV JAM 1:27 · LV JAM 1:27 · Read together JAM 1:27

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OET-RV JAM 1:27

27 A person who wants to truly serve our God and father with a pure heart would be visiting orphans and widows in their difficulties and staying unstained by worldly ideas.

OET-LV JAM 1:27

27 Religion pure and undefiled before our god and father this is:
to _be _visiting orphans and widows in the tribulation of _them, spotless himself to _be _keeping from the world.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ὑπερασπίζω

Form 1

Sense 1: to keep safe, to cause to be protected, to protect, to hide