Words the Bible translates as sit down
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- kathizōκαθίζωto sit down: to lower oneself onto a seat or mount, and so to take one's place
+2 more meanings
- to seat someone, to set or install a person in a position
- to settle, to stay or remain in a place
- anapiptōἀναπίπτωto recline at a meal: to settle back into the propped-on-one-elbow posture people took at a formal ancient banquet
- kathezomaiκαθέζομαιto sit somewhere and keep that seat: the held posture of a person settled in one spot
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