What is the Strong's number for Tithemi?

The Strong's number for Tithemi (τίθημι) is G5087. It is a Greek word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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

Q: What does Tithemi mean?

Tithemi (τίθημι, Strong's G5087) is a Greek word. 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). The King James Bible translates it as + advise, appoint, bow, commit, conceive, give, X kneel down, lay (aside, down, up), make, ordain, purpose, put, set (forth), settle, sink down.

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.

τίθημι

títhēmi · Greek

Strong’s G5087 · tith'-ay-mee

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

The full Strong’s definition

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)

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

How the King James Bible translates it

+ advise, appoint, bow, commit, conceive, give, X kneel down, lay (aside, down, up), make, ordain, purpose, put, set (forth), settle, sink down.

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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