ἘΠΙΚΑΘΙΣΗ, ἐπικαθιση
EPIKATHISĒ, epikathisē
Sounds Like: eh-pee-ka-THEE-see
Translations: sit upon, sit on, cause to sit upon
From the root: ΕΠΙΚΑΘΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb formed from the preposition ΕΠΙ (epi, meaning 'upon' or 'on') and the verb ΚΑΘΙΖΩ (kathizo, meaning 'to sit' or 'to cause to sit'). It generally means to sit upon something or to cause someone or something to sit upon something else. It can be used to describe an action of resting on a surface or placing something on a surface.
Inflection: Third Person Singular, Aorist Subjunctive, Active Voice
Strong’s number: G1909 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Leviticus — 15:20
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΠΙΚΑΘΙΖΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΠΕΚΑΘΙΣΑΝ — they sat upon, they seated, they caused to sit upon
- ἘΠΕΚΑΘΙΣΕΝ — he sat upon, he sat on, he caused to sit upon, he mounted
- ΕΠΕΚΑΘΙΣΑΝ — they sat upon, they sat down upon, they settled upon
- ΕΠΙΚΑΘΙΖΩ — to sit upon, to sit on, to set upon, to cause to sit upon
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