ἐπικαθίζω
epikathízō · G1940 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to sit upon, to mount, to get on
To sit down upon something
ExamplesMatthew 21:7 and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their cloaks on them; and He sat on the cloaks.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπάνωabove+ αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- רָכַב râkab · H7392 · to ride, to make (someone) ride
- ἐπικαθίζω (epikathízō, G1940) specifically denotes the action of seating/placing someone upon something (causative positioning), while רָכַב (râkab, H7392) broadly covers riding, mounting, and causing to ride, encompassing both the act of getting onto and traveling upon animals or vehicles.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To sit upon, to mount, to get on17.15
- Matthew 21:7 describes how the disciples “laid their cloaks on them, and He sat on them,” ἐπικάθημαι marking Jesus's literal act of mounting and sitting upon the donkey and colt for His entry into Jerusalem.
Word family 18 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist ἐπεκαθισα; 1. to cause to sit upon, to set upon: Mt 21:7 Rec.elz 2.…
1. to cause to sit upon, to set upon: Mt 21:7 Rec.elz
2. intransitive, to sit upon: Matthew, the passage cited (Rec.st) G L T Tr WH, others
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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