καθέζομαι
kathézomai · G2516 · Greek · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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to sit, to sit down, to be seated, sitting
To be in a seated position
ExamplesMatthew 26:55 At that time Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would against a man inciting a revolt? Every day I used to sit within the temple grounds teaching, and you did not arrest Me.
Luke 2:46 Then, after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.
John 4:6 and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was just sitting by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
How it’s used In 5 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
7 occurrences in 6 groups
- Not stated (participle) 2
- ἸησοῦςJesus 1
- ΜαρίαMary 1
- ἄγγελοςangel, messenger 1
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
- Not stated: I 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 7 groups
- ἐνin+ ἱερόνtemple 2
- ἐνin+ μέσοςin the midst, among 1
- ἐνin+ οἶκοςhouse, household 1
- ἐνin+ συνέδριονcouncil, Sanhedrin 1
- ἐπίon+ θυρίςwindow 1
- ἐπίon+ πηγήspring 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὕτωso, thus, in this way 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἴδωto know 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- εὑρίσκωto find, to discover 1
- θεωρέωto see, to look at, to observe 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- κάθημαι káthēmai · G2521 · to sit, to sit down, to be seated
- Both verbs share the core sense of sitting, but with an aspectual difference: καθέζομαι focuses on the punctual act of sitting down, while κάθημαι denotes the resulting state of being seated. This is a genuine lexical contrast in aspect within the same semantic field of sitting.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To sit, to sit down, to be seated, sitting17.12
- In Matthew 26:55, Jesus says to the arresting crowd, “Every day I used to sit within the temple grounds teaching, and you did not arrest Me,” using this word for the posture of sitting down.
Word family 18 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon imperfect ἐκαθεζόμην; (from Homer down); to sit down, seat oneself, sit: Jn 20:12;…
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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