to continue in/with
Proskartereo denotes sustained attention or commitment to a practice, duty, or person in the cited biblical passages.
The dominant usage depicts sustained commitment to practices and responsibilities, including prayer, teaching, fellowship, shared meals, and a public duty. A smaller group of verses shows continuing attendance with a person or keeping something available alongside someone.
Senses in use
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Sustained commitment to a practice or duty · dominant
In Acts 1:14 the present active participle describes the group continuing together in prayer, and in Acts 2:42 it accompanies their continuing in teaching, fellowship, breaking bread, and prayers. The same sustained orientation appears in Acts 2:46 at the temple, in Acts 6:4 in a future statement about prayer and service of the word, in Colossians 4:2 in an instruction concerning prayer, in Romans 12:12 alongside affliction and prayer, and in Romans 13:6 regarding ministers attending continually to their duty.
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Continuing attendance with someone or something · occasional
In Acts 8:13 the present active participle places Simon in ongoing association with Philip after his baptism. In Acts 10:7 the genitive plural participle identifies the soldier as among those who attended him, while Mark 3:9 uses a present active subjunctive for a small boat to remain with him because of the crowd.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly uses “continuing” or “continued” in Acts 1:14, Acts 2:42, Acts 2:46, Acts 8:13, and Colossians 4:2; it also uses “devote ourselves” in Acts 6:4 and “attending continually” in Romans 13:6. These are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.