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To sit with

συγκάθημαιStrong’s G4775

sugkathēmai

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Sugkathēmai is the Greek word usually translated “sitting” and “sitting with”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.”
Mark 14:54 KJV
Meaning

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

How it's translated
  • sitting 1
  • sitting with 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Mark 1
  • Acts 1

2 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
Greek dictionary

συγκάθημαι sugkathēmai · to sit with

συν-κάθημαι (Rec. συγκ-), [in LXX: Psa.101:6 (יָשַׁב) * ;] to sit together or with: with dative, Act.26:30; before μετά, with genitive, Mrk.14:54.† (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

  1. 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.
  2. adjective In botany, sessile.
All definitions and other forms of “sitting”

    SIT'TING, noun

    1. The posture of being on a seat.
    2. The act of placing one's self on a seat; as a sitting down.
    3. The act or time of resting in a posture for a painter or take the likeness.
    4. 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.
    5. An uninterrupted application to business or study for a time; course of study unintermitted.
    6. A time for which one sits, as at play, at work or on a visit.
    7. 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.