Greek verb · G2749
κεῖμαι
keimaiki'-mahee
to lay/be appointed
23 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: keîmai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2749is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 27New Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2749
to lie outstretched (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: be (appointed, laid up, made, set), lay, lie.
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
keimai is rendered "to lay/be appointed". It stands 23 times in the Greek text, across nine books.
- Seven of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 3:10The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
Matthew 3:10κεῖται
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's twenty-three uses are in John.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- lying7
- lies3
- is applied2
- was set2
- being already laid1
- He was lying1
- is appointed1
- is enacted1
- laid1
- laid up1
- standing1
- was laying1
and 1 more, 23 uses in all
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 23, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- κεῖται7
- ἔκειτο4
- κείμενον4
- κείμενα3
- κείμεθα1
- κείμεναι1
- κειμένη1
- κειμένην1
- κείμενος.¶1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singular7V-PNI-3S
- verb · imperfect middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singular4V-INI-3S
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · neuter plural3V-PNP-APN
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · neuter singular3V-PNP-ASN
- verb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person plural1V-PNI-1P
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · feminine singular1V-PNP-ASF
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singular1V-PNP-ASM
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine plural1V-PNP-NPF
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-PNP-NSF
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PNP-NSM
Matthew
three uses
The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
- κεῖταιkeitaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: is applied
You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.
- κειμένηkeimeneverb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: lying
He is not here; He has risen, just as He said! Come, see the place where He lay.
- ἔκειτοekeitoverb · imperfect middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He was lying
Luke
six uses
And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
- κείμενονkeimenonverb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: lying
So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph and the Baby, who was lying in the manger.
- κείμενονkeimenonverb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: lying
Then Simeon blessed them and said to His mother Mary: “Behold, this Child is appointed to cause the rise and fall of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against,
- κεῖταιkeitaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: is appointed
The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”
- κεῖταιkeitaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: is applied
Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
- κείμεναkeimenaverb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: laid up
Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had yet been laid.
- κείμενος.¶keimenosverb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: laid
John
seven uses
Now six stone water jars had been set there for the Jewish rites of purification. Each could hold from twenty to thirty gallons.
- κείμεναιkeimenaiverb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: standing
A jar of sour wine was sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in the wine, put it on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.
- ἔκειτοekeitoverb · imperfect middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was set
He bent down and looked in at the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in.
- κείμεναkeimenaverb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: lying
Simon Peter arrived just after him. He entered the tomb and saw the linen cloths lying there.
- κείμεναkeimenaverb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: lying
The cloth that had been around Jesus’ head was rolled up, lying separate from the linen cloths.
- κείμενονkeimenonverb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: lying
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.
- ἔκειτοekeitoverb · imperfect middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was laying
When they landed, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish on it, and some bread.
- κειμένηνkeimenenverb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: lying
1 Corinthians
one use
For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
- κείμενονkeimenonverb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: being already laid
2 Corinthians
one use
And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
- κεῖταιkeitaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: lies
1 Thessalonians
one use
so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.
- κείμεθαkeimethaverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we are destined
1 Timothy
one use
We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,
- κεῖταιkeitaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: is enacted
1 John
one use
We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
- κεῖταιkeitaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: lies
Revelation
two uses
At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it.
- ἔκειτοekeitoverb · imperfect middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was set
The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.
- κεῖταιkeitaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: lies
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.