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To move

μεθίστημιStrong’s G3179

methistēmi

Appears in 5 verses of the New Testament

In short

Methistēmi is the Greek word usually translated “may have been removed”, “having removed” and “has turned away”. It appears in 5 verses of the New Testament.

“I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.”
Luke 16:4 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “may have been removed”, “having removed” and “has turned away”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • i may have been removed 1
  • having removed 1
  • he has turned away 1
  • to remove 1
  • transferred 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Acts 2
  • Luke 1
  • 1 Corinthians 1
  • Colossians 1

4 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

μεθίστημι methistēmi · to move

μεθ-ίστημι and (late form, 1Co.13:2) μεθιστάνω, [in LXX for סוּר hi., etc. ;] trans. in Pres., impf., fut. and aor. 1, to change, remove: with accusative of thing(s), ὄρη, 1Co.13:2 (cf. Isa.54:10); with accusative of person(s): before εἰς, Col.1:13; before ἐκ, pass., Luk.16:4; of causing death (cf. similar intrans. sense, Eur., Alc., 21, al.), Act.13:22. Metaphorical (cf. τ. καρδίαν μ., Jos.14:8), with accusative of person(s), to pervert: Act.19:26.† (AS)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

MOVE, verb transitive

moov. [Latin moveo.]

  1. To impel; to carry, convey or draw from one place to another; to cause to change place or posture in any manner or by any means.
  2. To excite into action; to affect; to agitate; to rouse; as, to move the passions.
  3. To cause to act or determine; as, to move the will.
  4. To persuade; to prevail on; to excite from a state of rest or indifference.
All definitions and other forms of “move”
  1. To excite tenderness, pity or grief in the heart; to affect; to touch pathetically; to excite feeling in.“When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them--” Matthew 9:36
  2. To make angry; to provoke; to irritate.
  3. To excite tumult or commotion.“When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was moved about them” Ruth 1:19
  4. To influence or incite by secret agency.“God moved them to depart from him” 2 Chronicles 18:31
  5. To shake; to agitate.“The kingdoms were moved” Psalms 46:6
  6. To propose; to offer for consideration and determination; as, to move a resolution in a deliberative assembly.
  7. To propose; to recommend.
  8. To prompt; to incite; to instigate. Acts 17:28

MOVE, verb intransitive

To change place or posture; to stir; to pass or go in any manner or direction from one place or part of space to another. The planets move in their orbits; the earth moves on its axis; a ship moves at a certain rate an hour. We move by walking, running or turning; animals move by creeping, swimming or flying.

  1. To have action.“In him we live, and move and have our being” Acts 17:28
  2. To have the power of action.“Every moving thing that liveth, shall be meat for you” Genesis 9:3
  3. To walk.
  4. To march.
  5. To tremble; to shake.“The foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth” Psalms 18:7
  6. To change residence.

MOVE, noun

The act of moving; the act of transferring from place to place, as in chess.

    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.