To sit down
καθέζομαιStrong’s G2516kathezomai
Appears in 7 verses of the New Testament
In short
Kathezomai is the Greek word usually translated “sitting” and “was sitting”. It appears in 7 verses of the New Testament.
“In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.”
Meaning
Usually translated “sitting” and “was sitting”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- sitting 4
- was sitting 2
- i was sitting 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- John 3
- Acts 2
- Matthew 1
- Luke 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Luke 2:46And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
- John 4:6Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
- John 11:20Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
- John 20:12And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
- Acts 6:15And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
- Acts 20:9And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Greek dictionary
καθέζομαι kathezomai · to sit down
καθ-έζομαι [in LXX: Lev.12:5, al. (יָשַׁב), Job.39:28 (שָׁכַן) ;] to sit down, sit: Jhn.20:12; before ἐν, Mat.26:55, Luk.2:46, Jhn.11:20, Act.6:15; before ἐπί, with genitive, Act.20:9; id. with dative, Jhn.4:6 (cf. παρα-καθέζ-, κάθημαι).† καθ ̓ εἷς, see: (εἷς.) (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sitting” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIT'TING, participle present
tense
- Resting on the buttocks, or on the feet, as fowls; incubating; brooding; being in the actual exercise of authority, or being assembled for that purpose.
- adjective In botany, sessile.
All definitions and other forms of “sitting”
SIT'TING, noun
- The posture of being on a seat.
- The act of placing one's self on a seat; as a sitting down.
- The act or time of resting in a posture for a painter or take the likeness.
- A session; the actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; as a sitting of the judges of the king's bench; a sitting of the house of commons; during the sitting of the supreme court.
- An uninterrupted application to business or study for a time; course of study unintermitted.
- A time for which one sits, as at play, at work or on a visit.
- Incubation; a resting on eggs for hatching; as fowls.
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.