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Lexicon :: Strong's G5087 - tithēmi

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τίθημι
Transliteration
tithēmi (Key)
Pronunciation
tith'-ay-mee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A prolonged form of a primary theo {theh'-o} (which is used only as alternate in certain tenses)
mGNT
100x in 42 unique form(s)
TR
96x in 41 unique form(s)
LXX
457x in 67 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 8:152,1176

Strong’s Definitions

τίθημι títhēmi, tith'-ay-mee; a prolonged form of a primary θέω théō theh'-o (which is used only as alternate in certain tenses); to place (in the widest application, literally and figuratively; properly, in a passive or horizontal posture, and thus different from G2476, which properly denotes an upright and active position, while G2749 is properly reflexive and utterly prostrate):—+ advise, appoint, bow, commit, conceive, give, × kneel down, lay (aside, down, up), make, ordain, purpose, put, set (forth), settle, sink down.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 96x

The KJV translates Strong's G5087 in the following manner: lay (28x), put (18x), lay down (12x), make (10x), appoint (6x), kneel down (with G1119) (with G3588) (5x), miscellaneous (17x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 96x
The KJV translates Strong's G5087 in the following manner: lay (28x), put (18x), lay down (12x), make (10x), appoint (6x), kneel down (with G1119) (with G3588) (5x), miscellaneous (17x).
  1. to set, put, place

    1. to place or lay

    2. to put down, lay down

      1. to bend down

      2. to lay off or aside, to wear or carry no longer

      3. to lay by, lay aside money

    3. to set on (serve) something to eat or drink

    4. to set forth, something to be explained by discourse

  2. to make

    1. to make (or set) for one's self or for one's use

  3. to set, fix establish

    1. to set forth

    2. to establish, ordain

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
τίθημι títhēmi, tith'-ay-mee; a prolonged form of a primary θέω théō theh'-o (which is used only as alternate in certain tenses); to place (in the widest application, literally and figuratively; properly, in a passive or horizontal posture, and thus different from G2476, which properly denotes an upright and active position, while G2749 is properly reflexive and utterly prostrate):—+ advise, appoint, bow, commit, conceive, give, × kneel down, lay (aside, down, up), make, ordain, purpose, put, set (forth), settle, sink down.
STRONGS G5087:
τίθημι, 3 person plural τιθέασιν (Matthew 5:15; (Winers Grammar, § 14, 1 a.; Buttmann, 44 (38))); imperfect (from τιθέω) 3 person singular ἐτίθει (2 Corinthians 3:13), 3 person plural ἐτίθουν (Mark 6:56 (R G L); Acts 3:2; Acts 4:35) (and (T Tr WH in Mark, the passage cited) ἐτίθεσαν, cf. Buttmann, 45 (39); WH's Appendix, p. 167); future θήσω; 1 aorist ἔθηκα; 2 aorist (ἕθην) subjunctive θῶ (impv. 2 person plural θέτε, Luke 21:14 L T Tr WH (for R G 2 aorist middle imperative θέσθε)), infinitive θεῖναι, participle θείς; perfect τέθεικά; passive, present 3 person singular τίθεται (Mark 15:47 R G); perfect 3 person singular τέθειται (Mark 15:47 L T Tr WH); 1 aorist ἐτέθην; 2 aorist middle ἐθέμην (2 person singular ἔθου, Acts 5:4); (see ἐπιτίθημι); from Homer down; the Sept. mostly for שׂוּם and הֵשִׂים, נָתַן, שׁוּת and הֵשִׁית, הַנִיחַ, etc.:
1. to set, put, place, i. e. causative of κεῖσθαι; hence,
a. to place or lay: τί, as θεμέλιον (Luke 6:48); Luke 14:29; 1 Corinthians 3:10f (θεμείλια, Homer, Iliad 12, 29); λίθον, Romans 9:33; 1 Peter 2:6; τί, opposed to αἴρειν, Luke 19:21f (cf. Xenophon, oec. 8, 2); τίνι πρόσκομμα (or (according to WH marginal reading) σκάνδαλον), Romans 14:13; τί εἰς τί, Luke 11:33 (Winer's Grammar, 238 (223)); τινα ποῦ, ὅπου, ἐκεῖ, (ὡς), of the dead laid to rest somewhere, Mark 15:47; Mark 16:6; (Luke 23:55); John 11:34; John 19:42; John 20:2, 13, 15; ἐν with the dative of the place, Matthew 27:60; Mark 6:29; (Mark 15:46 L Tr WH); Luke 23:53; John 19:41; Acts 7:16; Acts 9:37; εἰς μνημεῖον, Acts 13:29; Revelation 11:9; (in Greek writings from Homer down very often of the laying away or depositing anywhere of the bones or ashes of the dead; like Latin ponere equivalent to sepelire, cf. Klotz, Handwörterb. d. Latin Spr. 2:822b; (Harpers' Latin Dictionary, under the word pono, I. Buttmann, 10)). τί or τινα ἐπί τίνος (Luke 8:16b L T Tr WH); Acts 5:15; John 19:19; (Revelation 10:2 G L T Tr WH); ἐπί τί (Mark 4:21 L T Tr WH; Mark 8:25 Tr text WH); 2 Corinthians 3:13; Revelation 10:2 (Rec.); ἐπί τινα, to put upon one, τάς χεῖρας, Mark 10:16; (τήν δεξιάν, Revelation 1:17 G L T Tr WH); τί ὑπό τί, Matthew 5:15; Mark 4:21; Luke 11:33; ὑποκάτω τίνος, Luke 8:16; τινα ὑπό τούς πόδας (see πούς), 1 Corinthians 15:25 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 523 (487)); τί παρά τούς πόδας τίθεσθαι, to lay at one's feet, Acts 4:35, 37 (here Tdf. πρός); Acts 5:2; θεῖναι ἐνώπιον τινα, Luke 5:18; metaphorically, ἐπί τινα τό πνεῦμα, i. e. to imbue one with, Matthew 12:18. Middle to have one put or placed: τινα εἰς φυλακήν, to order one to be put in prison, Acts 12:4; ἐν (τῇ) φυλακή, Matthew 14:3 (here L T Tr WH ἀποτίθημι); Acts 5:25 (Genesis 41:10; Genesis 42:17, 30; (Buttmann, 329 (283); Winer's Grammar, 414 (386))); εἰς τήρησιν, Acts 4:3; ἐν τηρήσει, Acts 5:18. to place for oneself: as βουλήν, to lay a plan (A. V. advised), Acts 27:12 (Judges 19:30; βουλάς ἐν ψυχή μου, Psalm 12:3 (Ps. 13:)); τά μέλη, to set, dispose, 1 Corinthians 12:18; (καιρούς ἐν τῇ ἰδίᾳ ἐξουσία, set within his own authority, Acts 1:7 (so R. V. text; but others refer it to 2 below)); τί εἰς τά ὦτα μου, to receive (A. V. let sink) into the ears, i. e. to fix in the mind, Luke 9:44; εἰς τήν καρδίαν, to propose to oneself, to purpose, followed by an infinitive Luke 21:14 (R G); also τί ἐν τῇ καρδία, to lay a thing up in one's heart to he remembered and pondered, Luke 1:66; (Luke 21:14 L T Tr WH), (1 Samuel 21:12; (Winers Grammar, § 2, 1 c., and Buttmann, as above)); to propose to oneself something (A. V. conceived this thing in thine heart), Acts 5:4; also ἐν τῷ πνεύματι, followed by an infinitive (A. V. to purpose in the spirit), Acts 19:21; to place (or posit) for the execution of one's purpose, θέμενος ἐν ἡμῖν τόν λόγον τῆς καταλλαγῆς, since he has placed (deposited) in our minds the doctrine concerning reconciliation (namely, to be made known to others), 2 Corinthians 5:19.
b. to put down, lay down; i. e.
α. to bend downward: τά γόνατα, to bend or bow the knees, to kneel, Mark 15:19; Luke 22:41; Acts 7:60; Acts 9:40; Acts 20:36; Acts 21:5 (Latin genua pono, Ovid. fast. 2, 438; Curt. 8, 7, 13).
β. like Latin pono (cf. Klotz, under the word; (Harpers' Dictionary, under the word, I. Buttmann, 9)), to lay off or aside, to wear or carry no longer: τά ἱμάτια (Latin vestes pono), John 13:4 (Plutarch, Alc. 8); τήν ψυχήν, to lay down, give up, one's life, John 10:17f; with ὑπέρ τίνος added, John 10:11, 15; John 13:37; John 15:13; 1 John 3:16 (ἔθηκε (or τεθεικεν) τήν σάρκα αὐτοῦ κύριος, the Epistle of Barnabas 6, 3 [ET] (irrelevant; see the passage); unlike the Latin phrases vitam ponere, Cicero, ad fam. 9, 24, 4; Propertius, eleg. 2, 10, 43; (animam ponere), Sil. Ital. 10, 303; spiritum ponere, Valerius Maximus, 7, 8, 8, since these phrases mean only to die; more like the expression prius animam quam odium deponere, Nepos, Hann. 1, 3).
γ. to lay by, lay aside money: παῥ ἑαυτῷ, 1 Corinthians 16:2.
c. to set on (serve) something to eat or drink: οἶνον, John 2:10 (Xenophon, mem. 3, 14, 1; so also Latin pono; cf. Klotz as above, p. 822a; (Harpers' Dict. under the word, I. B. 8)).
d. to set forth, something to be explained by discourse: τήν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν παραβολή, Mark 4:30 L text T Tr text WH (on this passage, see παραβολή, 2).
2. to make (Latin constituo), τινα with a predicate accusative: τινα ὑποδιον, Matthew 22:44 (where L T Tr WH ὑποκάτω, put underneath); Mark 12:36 (WH ὑποκάτω); Luke 20:43; Acts 2:35; Hebrews 1:13; Hebrews 10:13 (from Psalm 109:1 (Ps. 110:1)); add, Romans 4:17 (from Genesis 17:5); Hebrews 1:2; passive, 1 Timothy 2:7; 2 Timothy 1:11; τί with a predicate accusative: 1 Corinthians 9:18 (in Greek writings from Homer down, often in the poets, rarely in prose writings, as Aelian v. h. 13, 6; Lucian, dial. marin. 14, 2; in the O. T. cf. Genesis 17:5; Leviticus 26:31; Isaiah 5:20; Wis. 10:21; 2 Macc. 5:21; 3Macc. 5:48). Middle to make (or set) for oneself or for one's use: τινα with a predicate accusative, Acts 20:28; 1 Corinthians 12:28 (in Greek writ from Homer down, even in prose, to make one one's own, as τινα φίλον to make one a friend, see Passow, p. 1893a; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, B. I.)). τιθέναι τινα εἰς τί, to appoint one to (destine one to be) anything, passive, 1 Peter 2:8; with εἰς τί instead of the predicate accusative (Hebraistically (cf. Winers Grammar, 228 (214); Buttmann, § 131, 7)), Acts 13:47 from Isaiah 49:6 (Jeremiah 1:5). Middle to appoint for one's use: τινα εἰς διακονίαν, to appoint one to one's service, 1 Timothy 1:12 (Winers Grammar, § 45, 4 at the end); to appoint with oneself or in one's mind: τινα εἰς ὀργήν, to decree one to be subject to wrath, 1 Thessalonians 5:9; (to this use many refer Acts 1:7, see ἐξουσία 1, and ἐν, I. 5 d. β.; cf. 1 a. above). τιθέναι τινα ἵνα, John 15:16; τιθέναι τό μέρος τίνος μετά τίνος (see μέρος, 1), Matthew 24:51; Luke 12:46.
3. to set, fix, establish (Latin statuo);
a. to set forth (German aufstellen): ὑπόδειγμα, 2 Peter 2:6.
b. to establish, ordain, (German festsetzen, anordnen): νόμον, to enact, Galatians 3:19 Griesbach (very often in secular authors from Herodotus down, both in the active and the middle; cf. Passow, under the word, III. 3 b.; (Liddell and Scott, under the word A. III. 5)). (Compare: ἀνατίθημι, προσανατίθημι, ἀποτίθημι, διατίθημι, ἀντιδιατίθημι, ἐκτίθημι, ἐπιτίθημι, συνεπιτίθημι, κατατίθημι, συνκατατιθημι, μετατίθημι, παρατίθημι, περιτίθημι, προτίθημι, προστίθημι, συντίθημι, ὑποτίθημι.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
17:5; 17:5; 41:10; 42:17; 42:30
Leviticus
26:31
Judges
19:30
1 Samuel
21:12
Psalms
12:3; 13; 109:1; 110:1
Isaiah
5:20; 49:6
Jeremiah
1:5
Matthew
5:15; 5:15; 12:18; 14:3; 22:44; 24:51; 27:60
Mark
4:21; 4:21; 4:30; 6:29; 6:56; 8:25; 10:16; 12:36; 15:19; 15:46; 15:47; 15:47; 15:47; 16:6
Luke
1:66; 5:18; 6:48; 8:16; 8:16; 9:44; 11:33; 11:33; 12:46; 14:29; 19:21; 20:43; 21:14; 21:14; 21:14; 22:41; 23:53; 23:55
John
2:10; 10:11; 10:15; 10:17; 11:34; 13:4; 13:37; 15:13; 15:16; 19:19; 19:41; 19:42; 20:2; 20:13; 20:15
Acts
1:7; 1:7; 2:35; 3:2; 4:3; 4:35; 4:35; 4:37; 5:2; 5:4; 5:4; 5:15; 5:18; 5:25; 7:16; 7:60; 9:37; 9:40; 12:4; 13:29; 13:47; 19:21; 20:28; 20:36; 21:5; 27:12
Romans
4:17; 9:33; 14:13
1 Corinthians
3:10; 9:18; 12:18; 12:28; 15:25; 16:2
2 Corinthians
3:13; 3:13; 5:19
Galatians
3:19
1 Thessalonians
5:9
1 Timothy
1:12; 2:7
2 Timothy
1:11
Hebrews
1:2; 1:13; 10:13
1 Peter
2:6; 2:8
2 Peter
2:6
1 John
3:16
Revelation
1:17; 10:2; 10:2; 11:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5087 matches the Greek τίθημι (tithēmi),
which occurs 43 times in 39 verses in 'Isa' in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:20 -

Woe to those who call evil good

and good evil,

who substitute darkness for light

and light for darkness,

who substitute bitter for sweet

and sweet for bitter.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 -

I will send him against a godless nation;

I will command him to go

against a people destined for my rage,

to take spoils, to plunder,

and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:28 -

Assyria has come to Aiath

and has gone through Migron,

storing their equipment at Michmash.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 -

Look, the day of the LORD is coming —

cruel, with fury and burning anger —

to make the earth a desolation

and to destroy its sinners.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:13 -

You said to yourself,

“I will ascend to the heavens;

I will set up my throne

above the stars of God.

I will sit on the mount of the gods’ assembly,

in the remotest parts of the North.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:17 -

“who turned the world into a wilderness,

who destroyed its cities

and would not release the prisoners to return home? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:23 -

“I will make her a swampland and a region for herons,[fn] and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction.”

This is the declaration of the LORD of Armies.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:18 -

“wind you up into a ball, and sling you into a wide land.[fn] There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will be ​— ​a disgrace to the house of your lord.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 -

For you have turned the city into a pile of rocks,

a fortified city, into ruins;

the fortress of barbarians is no longer a city;

it will never be rebuilt.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:1 -

On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

We have a strong city.

Salvation is established as walls and ramparts.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:4 -

I am not angry.

If only there were thorns and briers for me to battle,

I would trample them

and burn them to the ground.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 -

Therefore Jacob’s iniquity will be atoned for in this way,

and the result of the removal of his sin will be this:

when he makes all the altar stones

like crushed bits of chalk,

no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:15 -

For you said, “We have made a covenant with Death,

and we have an agreement with Sheol;

when the overwhelming catastrophe[fn] passes through,

it will not touch us,

because we have made falsehood our refuge

and have hidden behind treachery.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:17 -

“And I will make justice the measuring line

and righteousness the mason’s level.”

Hail will sweep away the false refuge,

and water will flood your hiding place.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:3 -

I will camp in a circle around you;

I will besiege you with earth ramps,

and I will set up my siege towers against you.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:21 -

those who, with their speech,

accuse a person of wrongdoing,

who set a trap for the one mediating at the city gate

and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25 -

“I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands.[fn]

I dried up all the streams of Egypt

with the soles of my feet.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:7 -

The craftsman encourages the metalworker;

the one who flattens with the hammer

encourages the one who strikes the anvil,

saying of the soldering, “It is good.”

He fastens it with nails so that it will not fall over.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:15 -

See, I will make you into a sharp threshing board,

new, with many teeth.

You will thresh mountains and pulverize them

and make hills into chaff.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:19 -

I will plant cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive trees

in the wilderness.

I will put juniper, elm, and cypress trees together

in the desert,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:4 -

“He will not grow weak or be discouraged

until he has established justice on earth.

The coasts and islands will wait for his instruction.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:15 -

“I will lay waste mountains and hills

and dry up all their vegetation.

I will turn rivers into islands

and dry up marshes.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:25 -

So he poured out his furious anger

and the power of war on Jacob.

It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it;

it burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:7 -

“They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along;

they set it in its place, and there it stands;

it does not budge from its place.

They cry out to it but it doesn’t answer;

it saves no one from his trouble.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:2 -

He made my words like a sharp sword;

he hid me in the shadow of his hand.

He made me like a sharpened arrow;

he hid me in his quiver.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:6 -

he says,

“It is not enough for you to be my servant

raising up the tribes of Jacob

and restoring the protected ones of Israel.

I will also make you a light for the nations,

to be my salvation to the ends of the earth.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:11 -

I will make all my mountains into a road,

and my highways will be raised up.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:2 -

Why was no one there when I came?

Why was there no one to answer when I called?

Is my arm too weak to redeem?

Or do I have no power to rescue?

Look, I dry up the sea by my rebuke;

I turn the rivers into a wilderness;

their fish rot because of lack of water

and die of thirst.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:3 -

I dress the heavens in black

and make sackcloth their covering.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:4 -

The Lord GOD has given me

the tongue of those who are instructed

to know how to sustain the weary with a word.

He awakens me each morning;

he awakens my ear to listen like those being instructed.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:7 -

The Lord GOD will help me;

therefore I have not been humiliated;

therefore I have set my face like flint,

and I know I will not be put to shame.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3 -

For the LORD will comfort Zion;

he will comfort all her waste places,

and he will make her wilderness like Eden,

and her desert like the garden of the LORD.

Joy and gladness will be found in her,

thanksgiving and melodious song.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10 -

Wasn’t it you who dried up the sea,

the waters of the great deep,

who made the sea-bed into a road

for the redeemed to pass over?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:16 -

I have put my words in your mouth,

and covered you in the shadow of my hand,

in order to plant[fn] the heavens,

to found the earth,

and to say to Zion, “You are my people.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:23 -

“I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,

who said to you,

‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’

You made your back like the ground,

and like a street for those who walk on it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:12 -

“I will make your fortifications[fn] out of rubies,

your gates out of sparkling stones,

and all your walls out of precious stones.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:8 -

You have set up your memorial

behind the door and doorpost.

For away from me, you stripped,

went up, and made your bed wide,

and you have made a bargain[fn] for yourself with them.

You have loved their bed;

you have gazed on their genitals.[fn][fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:15 -

Instead of your being deserted and hated,

with no one passing through,

I will make you an object of eternal pride,

a joy from age to age.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:11 -

Then he[fn] remembered the days of the past,

the days of Moses and his people.

Where is he who brought them out of the sea

with the shepherds[fn] of his flock?

Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among the flock?

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