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καθέζομαι

kathézomai · Greek · Strong's G2516 · 8 occurrences

The KJV renders 4 different Hebrew and Greek words as “sit”

What it means

to sit down

from G2596 (κατά) and the base of G1476 (ἑδραῖος);

How the KJV renders it

sit

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

sit
also renders kathízō (G2523), parakathízō (G3869), yᵉthib (H3488)

Where it appears

8 occurrences in the Greek text.

Acts 6:15 · V-PNP-NPM
All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.
Acts 20:9 · V-PNP-NSM
A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was taken up dead.
John 4:6 · V-INI-3S
Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
John 6:3 · V-INI-3S
Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.
John 11:20 · V-INI-3S
Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.
John 20:12 · V-PNP-APM
and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
Luke 2:46 V-PNP-ASMMatthew 26:55 V-INI-1S

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