methistēmi · remove, transfer

What it means

methistēmi (μεθίστημι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “remove, transfer”.

Remove from office; move, transfer; also lead astray.

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. Carry from one place to another.
2. Depose someone from a post.
3. Lead people another way.

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

How it is translated

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

• I am removed ×1
• after removing ×1
• move ×1
• transferred us ×1
• turned away ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Luke×1
• Acts×2
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Colossians×1

• Luke 16:4

  I know what I will do, so that, when I am removed from the management, people will welcome me into their homes.’

• Acts 13:22

  And after removing him, he raised up David for them as king, about whom he also said, testifying, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my wishes.’

• Acts 19:26

  And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable crowd, saying that those made by hands are not gods.

• 1 Corinthians 13:2

  And if I have prophecy and know all the mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

• Colossians 1:13

  He rescued us from the authority of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,