μεθίστημι
methístēmi · G3179 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to cause to move, to remove
To cause something to be moved from one place to another
ExamplesActs 13:22 “After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My will.’
1 Corinthians 13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
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to change to, to turn into, to cause to be different from, to transform
To cause a change of state, with emphasis upon the difference in the resulting state
ExamplesLuke 16:4 ‘I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes.’
Colossians 1:13 For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,
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to turn away, to mislead
(A figurative extension of meaning of μεθίστημι ‘to cause to move,’) To cause a complete change in someone’s beliefs, normally in the unfavorable sense of causing someone to turn away from a previous belief and hence to be misled
ExamplesActs 19:26 “You see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people, saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.
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to cease
To cease from a state or function, with the implication of transfer or removal
ExamplesLuke 16:4 ‘I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes.’
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
5 occurrences in 5 groups
- ΠαῦλοςPaul 1
- Not stated: I 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- ὄροςmountain 1
- ὄχλοςcrowd, multitude, common people 1
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- εἰςto+ βασιλείαkingdom, reign 1
- ἐκfrom+ οἰκονομίαplan, stewardship 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὐnot 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πατήρfather 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
- סוּר çûwr · H5493 · to make a turn, to cause to make a turn
- Hebrew סוּר (çûwr, H5493) emphasizes physical or spatial removal/turning aside (depart, turn away, remove), while Greek μεθίστημι (methístēmi, G3179) more commonly denotes institutional transfer or displacement of position (transfer, depose, remove from office), though both share the core semantic of causing something/someone to move away from an original location or state.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- To change to, to turn into, to cause to be different from, to transform13.64
- This sense denotes causing a transfer from one state or realm to another. Colossians 1:13 states that God “transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son.”
- To cause to move, to remove15.9
- This sense denotes causing physical removal or relocation. 1 Corinthians 13:2 speaks of having “all faith so as to remove mountains.”
- To turn away, to mislead31.73
- This sense denotes leading someone away from a prior conviction or loyalty. Acts 19:26 accuses Paul of having “persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people.”
- To cease68.38
- This sense denotes the ending of a role or position. Luke 16:4 has the steward reason, “when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes.”
Word family 58 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon and (in 1 Cor 13:2 R G WH (cf. ἵστημι)) μεθιστάνω; 1 aorist μετέστησα; 1 aorist passive…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 entries
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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