kathezomai · sit down

What it means

kathezomai (καθέζομαι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “sit down”.

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. To take a seat or remain seated somewhere.

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

How it is translated

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

• sitting ×6
• I sat ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Luke×1
• John×3
• Acts×2

• Matthew 26:55

  At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs, to arrest me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me.

• Luke 2:46

  And it happened after three days that they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and questioning them.

• John 4:6

  Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired from the journey, was sitting like that by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

• John 11:20

  So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed sitting in the house.

• John 20:12

  and she sees two angels in white, sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying.

• Acts 6:15

  And looking intently at him, all who were sitting in the council saw his face like the face of an angel.

• Acts 20:9

  And a certain young man named Eutychus, sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on, overcome by sleep, fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.