Greek

To make a covenant

διατίθημιStrong’s G1303

diatithēmi

Appears in 6 verses of the New Testament

In short

Diatithēmi is the Greek word usually translated “make”, “having made” and “appoint”. It appears in 6 verses of the New Testament.

“And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;”

Luke 22:29 KJV

Meaning

Usually translated “make”, “having made” and “appoint”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

i will make 2
having made 2
appoint 1
appointed 1
made 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Hebrews 4
Luke 1
Acts 1

3 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

Greek dictionary

διατίθημι diatithēmi · to make a covenant

δια-τίθημι [in LXX chiefly for כָּרַת, frequently δ. διαθήκην (כָּרַת) ;] to place separately, arrange, dispose. Mid, only in NT; 1. (a) in general, to dispose of; with dative of person(s), to assign to one, Luk.22:29; (b) to dispose of by a will, make a testament (in cl., δ. διαθήκην also in this sense): Heb.9:16-17 (but cf. R, mg., and see: διαθήκη). 2. δ. διαθήκην, to make a covenant (Aristoph.): with dative of person(s), Heb.8:10 (LXX); before πρ, with accusative of person(s), Act.3:25, Heb.10:16" (LXX) (cf. ἀντι-διατίθημι).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “make” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MAKE, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive made.

To compel; to constrain.
To form of materials; to fashion; to mold into shape; to cause to exist in a different form, or as a distinct thing.“He fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf” Exodus 32:4
To create; to cause to exist; to form from nothing.
To compose; to constitute as parts, materials or ingredients united in a whole.

All definitions and other forms of “make”

To form by art.
To produce or effect, as the agent.“Call for Sampson, that he may make us sport” Judges 16:25
To produce, as the cause; to procure; to obtain.“Wealth maketh many friends” Proverbs 19:4
To do; to perform; to execute; as, to make a journey; to make a long voyage.
To cause to have any quality, as by change or alteration.
To bring into any state or condition; to constitute.“See I have made thee a god to Pharaoh” Exodus 7:1
To contract; to establish; as, to make friendship.
To keep; as, to make abode.
To raise to good fortune; to secure in riches or happiness; as when it is said, he is made for this world.
To suffer.
To incur; as, to make a loss. [Improper.]
To commit; to do.
To intend or to do; to purpose to do.
To raise, as, profit; to gain; to collect; as, to make money in trade or by husbandry; to make an estate by steady industry.
To discover; to arrive in sight of; a seaman's phrase, They made the land at nine o'clock on the larboard bow, distant five leagues.
To reach; to arrive at; as, to make a port or harbor; a seaman's phrase.
To gain by advance; as, to make little way with a head wind; we made our way to the next village.
To provide; as, to make a dinner or entertainment.
To put or place; as, to make a difference between strict right and expedience.
To turn; to convert, as to use.
To represent.
To constitute; to form.
To induce; to cause.
To put into a suitable or regular form for use; as, to make a bed.
To fabricate; to forge.
To compose; to form and write; as, to make verses or an oration.
To cure; to dry and prepare for preservation; as, to make hay.
To make free with, to treat with freedom; to treat without ceremony.make good, to maintain, to defend.
To fulfill; to accomplish; as, to make good one's word, promise or engagement.
To make compensation for; to supply an equivalent; as, to make good a loss or damage.“They made light of it, and went their way” Matthew 22:5
To produce from; to effect.
To consider; to account; to esteem.
To prove; to evince; to establish by evidence or argument.
To furnish; to find or supply.
To secure to one's possession; as, to make sure of the game.
To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel.
To repair; as, to make up a hedge. Ezekiel 13:18
To supply what is wanting.
To compose, as ingredients or parts.
To shape; as, to make up a mass into pills.
To assume a particular form of features; as, to make up a face; whence, to make up a lip, is to pout.
To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss.
To settle; to adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts.
To determine; to bring to a definite conclusion; as, to make up one's mind.

MAKE, verb intransitive

To tend; to proceed; to move. He made towards home. The tiger made at the sportsman. Formerly authors used to make way, to make on, to make forth, to make about; but these phrases are obsolete. We now say, to make at, to make towards.

To contribute; to have effect.
To rise; to flow toward land; as, the tide makes fast.“Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled” Joshua 8:15
To tend to advantage; to favor.

MAKE, noun

Structure; texture; constitution of parts in a body. It may sometimes be synonymous with shape or form, but more properly, the word signifies the manner in which the parts of a body are united; as a man of slender make or feeble make

MAKE, noun

[Eng. match; Latin par.]

A companion; a mate.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.