Bible word study

Tithemi (Strong’s G5087): Meaning in the Bible

Tithemi (τίθημι) is the Greek word numbered G5087 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to place (in the widest application, literally and figuratively; properly, in a passive or horizontal posture, and thus different from G2476, which properly denotes an upright and active position, while G2749 is properly reflexive and utterly prostrate). In the King James Bible it is translated + advise, appoint, bow, commit, conceive.

• Original wordτίθημι
• Transliterationtíthēmi
• Pronunciationtith'-ay-mee
• Strong’s numberG5087
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a prolonged form of a primary (which is used only as alternate in certain tenses);

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Tithemi appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Tithemi (G5087) stands behind 103 English renderings in 92 verses across 16 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Acts (22), John (20), Luke (19).

How the King James Bible renders Tithemi, by count

• laid22 of 103 (21 percent)
• put13 of 103 (13 percent)
• down8 of 103 (8 percent)
• lay6 of 103 (6 percent)
• appointed4 of 103 (4 percent)
• set4 of 103 (4 percent)

Three places to read Tithemi

• Matthew 5:15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
• John 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
• Acts 13:29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Tithemi in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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