diatithemai · assign, make a covenant

What it means

diatithemai (διατίθεμαι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “assign, make a covenant”.

Assign, grant, confer; make a covenant or a will.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Allot something to someone as an inheritance.
2. Establish a covenant; draw up a will.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• I will make ×2
• one who made it ×2
• assign ×1
• assigned ×1
• made ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Luke×2
• Acts×1
• Hebrews×4

• Luke 22:29

  and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom,

• Acts 3:25

  You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

• Hebrews 8:10

  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: putting my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their hearts; and I will be God to them, and they will be a people to me.

• Hebrews 9:16

  For where there is a covenant, the death of the one who made it must be established.

• Hebrews 9:17

  For a covenant is firm at death, since it is never in force while the one who made it is alive.

• Hebrews 10:16

  This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: putting my laws on their hearts, I will also write them on their mind,

And 1 more times.