Greek verb · G2516
καθέζομαι
kathezomaikath-ed'-zom-ahee
to sit down
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kathézomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2516is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2516
to sit down
The King James renders it: sit.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kathezomai is rendered "to sit down". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 26:55At that time Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would an outlaw? Every day I sat teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
At that time Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would an outlaw? Every day I sat teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me.
Matthew 26:55ἐκαθεζόμην
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- sitting4
- was sitting2
- I was sitting1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐκαθέζετο2
- ἐκαθεζόμην1
- καθεζόμενοι1
- καθεζόμενον1
- καθεζόμενος1
- καθεζομένους1
The grammar of each form
- verb · imperfect middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-INI-3S
- verb · imperfect middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person singular1V-INI-1S
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · masculine plural1V-PNP-APM
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singular1V-PNP-ASM
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-PNP-NPM
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PNP-NSM
Matthew
one use
At that time Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would an outlaw? Every day I sat teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me.
- ἐκαθεζόμηνekathezomenverb · imperfect middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I was sitting
Luke
one use
Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
- καθεζόμενονkathezomenonverb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: sitting
John
three uses
Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
- ἐκαθέζετοekathezetoverb · imperfect middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was sitting
So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him; but Mary stayed at home.
- ἐκαθέζετοekathezetoverb · imperfect middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was sitting
and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and the other at the feet.
- καθεζομένουςkathezomenousverb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: sitting
Acts
two uses
All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
- καθεζόμενοιkathezomenoiverb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: sitting
And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.
- καθεζόμενοςkathezomenosverb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: sitting
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.