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To place

τίθημιStrong’s G5087

tithēmi

Appears in 96 verses of the New Testament

In short

Tithēmi is the Greek word usually translated “put”, “may place” and “laid”. It appears in 96 verses of the New Testament.

“And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;”
1 Timothy 1:12 KJV
Meaning

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

How it's translated
  • put 5
  • i may place 5
  • laid 3
  • he laid 3
  • having bowed 3
  • will appoint 2
  • placed 2
  • they laid 2

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

Where it's used most
  • Acts 23
  • John 17
  • Luke 15
  • Mark 10
  • 1 Corinthians 7
  • Matthew 5

16 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 96 verses, by book
2 Corinthians 2
3:135:19
1 Thessalonians 1
5:9
1 Timothy 2
1:122:7
2 Timothy 1
1:11
Hebrews 3
1:21:1310:13
1 Peter 2
2:62:8
2 Peter 1
2:6
1 John 1
3:16
Revelation 3
1:1710:211:9
Greek dictionary

τίθημι tithēmi · to place

τίθημι, [in LXX for שִׁית ,נתן ,שׂוּם, etc. ;] 1. causative of κεῖμαι, (a) to place, lay, set: Luk.6:48, Rom.9:33, al.; of laying the dead to rest, Mrk.15:47, Luk.23:55, Jhn.11:34, Act.7:16, al.; before ἐπί, with genitive, Luk.8:16, Jhn.19:19, al.; id. with accusative, Mrk.4:21, 2Co.3:13, al.; ὑπό, Mat.5:15, al.; παρά, Act.4:35, 37. Mid., to have put or placed, to place for oneself: of putting in prison, Act.4:3, 5:18, 25, al.; of giving counsel, βουλήν, Act.27:12; of laying up in one's heart, Luk.1:66 21:14 ( 1Ki.21:12); …

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

PLACE, noun

  1. A particular portion of space of indefinite extent, occupied or intended to be occupied by any person or thing, and considered as the space where a person or thing does or may rest or has rested, as distinct from space in general.“Look from the place where thou art” Genesis 13:14“The place where thou standest is holy ground” Exodus 3:5“David's place was empty” 1 Samuel 20:25
  2. Any portion of space, as distinct from space in general.“Enlargement and deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place” Esther 4:14
  3. Local existence.“From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them” Revelation 20:11
  4. Separate room or apartment.
All definitions and other forms of “place”
  1. Seat; residence; mansion.“The Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation” John 11:48
  2. A portion or passage of writing or of a book.“The place of the Scripture which he read was this” Acts 8:32
  3. Point or degree in order of proceeding; as in the first place; in the second place; in the last place Hence,
  4. Rank; order of priority, dignity or importance.
  5. Office, employment; official station.
  6. Ground; room.
  7. Station in life; calling; occupation; condition.
  8. A city, a town; a village. Genesis 18:24
  9. In military affairs, a fortified town or post; a fortress; a fort; as a strong place; a place easily defended.
  10. A country; a kingdom.
  11. Space in general.
  12. Room; stead; with the sense of substitution.
  13. Room; kind reception.“My word hath no place in you” John 8:37
  14. The place of the moon, in astronomy, is the part of its orbit where it is found at any given time.
  15. To take the precedence or priority.
  16. To have actual existence.
  17. To give room; to give advantage; to yield to the influence of; to listen to.“Neither give place to the devil” Ephesians 4:27
  18. To give way; to yield to and suffer to pass away.

PLACE, verb transitive

To put or set in a particular part of space, or in a particular part of the earth, or in something on its surface; to locate; as, to place a house by the side of a stream; to place a book on a shelf; to place a body of cavalry on each flank of any army.

  1. To appoint, set, induct or establish in an office.“Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, etc” Exodus 18:21
  2. To put or set in any particular rank, state or condition.
  3. To set; to fix; as, to place one's affections on an object; to place confidence in a friend.
  4. To put; to invest; as, to place money in the funds or in a bank.
  5. To put out at interest; to lend; as, to place money in good hands or in good security.

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.