διατρίβω; imperfect διέτριβον; 1 aorist διετριψα; to rub between, rub hard, (properly, Homer, Iliad 11, 847, others); to wear away, consume; χρόνον or ἡμέρας, to spend, pass time: Act_14:3; Act_14:28; Act_16:12; Act_20:6; Act_25:6; Act_25:14 (Lev_14:8; Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, others); simply to stay, tarry, (cf. Buttmann, 145 (127); Winer's Grammar, 593 (552)): Joh_3:22; Joh_11:54 (WH Tr text ἔμεινεν); Act_12:19; Act_14:18 (Lachmann edition min.); ; (Jdt_10:2; 2Ma_14:23, and often in secular authors from Homer, Iliad 19, 150 down).

διατρίβω diatribō 9x pr. to rub, wear away by friction; met. to pass or spend time, to remain, stay, tarry, continue, Joh_3:22 ; Joh_11:54 ; Act_12:19 ; Act_14:3 ; Act_14:28

δια -τρίβω , [in LXX Lev_14:8 ( H3427 ), Jer_35:7 ( H1481 ), Tob_11:8 ; Tob_11:12 , Jdt_10:2 , 2Ma_14:23 * ;] to rub hard, rub away, consume; δ . χρόνον , ἡμέρας , to spend time: Act_14:3 ; Act_14:28 ; Act_16:12 ; Act_20:6 ; Act_25:6 ; Act_25:14 . Intransitively with ellipse of object (El., § 81, 1), to spend time, stay: Joh_3:22 ; Joh_11:54 , Act_15:35 , Act_12:19 .†

διατρίβω [page 156] διατρίβω is common = live, sojourn, e.g. P Hal I. 1 .182 (middle iii/B.C.) ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν Ἀπόλλωνος π [ό ]λει διατρίβωσιν , P Lille I. 7 .4 (iii/B.C.) διατρίβοντος γάρ μου μετὰ Ἀπολλωνίου ἐμοῦ οἰκείου , BGU I. 267 .11 (A.D. 199) πρὸς μὲν τοὺς ἐν ἀλλοτρίᾳ πόλει διατρείβοντας ἐτῶν εἴκοσι ἀριθμῷ βεβαιοῦται (cf. P Strass I. 22 .6 ), ib. IV. 1140 .4 (B.C. 5) διατρείψας ἐνταῦθα (in Alexandria) τὸν πάντα χρόνον the complaint of a Jew named Helenus, son of Tryphon an Alexandrian, Preisigke 1002 .9 (? iii/A.D.) ἐν τῇ βασιλ [ευ ]ο [ύ ]σῃ Ῥώμῃ χρόνῳ πολλῷ διατρίψας , P Oxy III. 486 .31 (A.D. 131) ἐνθάδ [ε ] μοι διατριβούσῃ ἀπηνγέλη τὰ ἐμὰ πάν [τα ] . . . ἀπολωλένα [ι , ib. IX. 1204 .18 (A.D. 299) ἐπειδὴ κατὰ τὴν Ὄασιν τῆν Μεικρὰν διέτρειβεν , etc. So from the inscrr. Michel 332 .4 (ii/B.C.) διατρίβων παρὰ βασιλεῖ Σκυθῶν , living at the court of the King of the Scythians. These exx. make against the constr. suggested by Field ( Notes p. 121) for Act_14:3 , by which χρόνον is the object of διέτριψαν instead of the acc. of time. For the subst. see OGIS 505 .7 (A.D. 156) ὡς ἐν πατρίδι ταῖς Ἀθήναις τὴν διατριβὴν ποιησάμενος (= ἐν ταῖς Ἀ . ὡς ἐν π ., as Dittenberger notes). In connexion with the frequent use of this verb in Ac, Hobart (p. 221 f.) adduces exx. of its varied employment in medical writings. Διατριβή in MGr = dissertation, as in technical phraseology of ancient times, from which it apparently descends.

διατρίβω fut. ψω Pass., aor2 -ετρι?́βην perf. -τέτριμμαι "to rub between, rub hard, rub away, consume, waste", Hom. :—Pass., διατρι^βῆναι "to perish utterly", Hdt. δ. χρόνον, Lat. terere tempus, to spend time, id=Hdt. , Xen. : Pass., ἐνιαυτὸς διετρίβη Thuc. absol. (without χρόνον), "to waste time, pass it away", οὐ μὴ διατρίψεις; i. e. make no more delay, Ar. ; δ. ἐν γυμνασίοις "to pass all one's time" there, id=Ar. ; δ. μετ᾽ ἀλλήλων "to go on talking", id=Ar. : —hence, "to employ oneself on or in" a thing, ἔν or ἐπί τινι Plat. ; περί τι id=Plat. ; c. part., δ. μελετῶν Xen. also absol. "to lose time, delay", Il. , Ar. , etc.: c. gen., δ. ὁδοῖο "to lose time" on the way, Od. "to put off by delay, to thwart, hinder" a thing, Hom. ; δ. Ἀχαιοὺς ὃν γάμον "put" them "off" in the matter of her wedding, Od.

δια-τρίβω [in LXX Lev.14:8 (יָשַׁב), Jer.35:7 (גּוּר), Tob.11:8, 12, Jdth.10:2, 2Ma.14:23 * ;] to rub hard, rub away, consume; δ. χρόνον, ἡμέρας, to spend time: Act.14:3, 28 16:12 20:6 25:6, 14. Intransitively with ellipse of object (El., § 81, 1), to spend time, stay: Jhn.3:22 11:54, Act.15:35, Act.12:19.† (AS)