metatithēmi · transfer, change

What it means

metatithēmi (μετατίθημι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “transfer, change”.

Transfer, move to another place; change; also desert, turn away.

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. Move to another place; be lifted up by God.
2. Alter; make one thing into another; go over to another side.

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

How it is translated

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

• changed ×1
• had taken ×1
• they were carried over ×1
• was taken up ×1
• who turn ×1
• you are turning away ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Acts×1
• Galatians×1
• Hebrews×3
• Jude×1

• Acts 7:16

  and they were carried over to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

• Galatians 1:6

  I am amazed that you are turning away so quickly from the one who called you in the grace of the Messiah, to a different good news—

• Hebrews 7:12

  For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity a change of law also takes place.

• Hebrews 11:5

  By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him up; for before being taken up he had received testimony that he had pleased God.

• Jude 1:4

  For certain men have slipped in, who long ago were written about beforehand for this judgment, ungodly men who turn the grace of our God into debauchery and deny our only Sovereign and Lord, Jesus the Messiah.

And 1 more times.