καταοἰκίζω
settle, cause to dwell
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where καταοἰκίζω appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 39 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 3:24 καταοἰκίζω And he cast out Adam and caused him to dwell over against the garden of Delight, and stationed the cherubs and the fiery sword that turns about to keep the way of the tree of life.
- Exodus 2:21 καταοἰκίζω And Moses was established with the man, and he gave Sepphora his daughter to Moses to wife.
- Leviticus 23:43 καταοἰκίζω that your posterity may see, that I made the children of Israel to dwell in tents, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
- Numbers 21:15 καταοἰκίζω And he has appointed brooks to cause Er to dwell there; and it lies near to the coasts of Moab.
- Deuteronomy 2:12 καταοἰκίζω And the Chorrhite lived in Seir before, and the sons of Esau destroyed them, and utterly consumed them from before them; and they lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his inheritance, which the Lord gave to them.
- Joshua 7:7 καταοἰκίζω And Joshua said, I pray, Lord, therefore has your servant brought this people over Jordan to deliver them to the Amorite to destroy us? would we had remained and settled ourselves beyond Jordan.
- 1 Samuel 12:8 καταοἰκίζω When Jacob and his sons went into Egypt, and Egypt humbled them, then our fathers cried to the Lord, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron; and they brought our fathers out of Egypt, and he made them to dwell in this place.
- 2 Kings 17:6 καταοἰκίζω In the ninth year of Osee the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to the Assyrians, and settled them in Alae, and in Abor, near the rivers of Gozan, and in the mountains of the Medes.
- 2 Chronicles 8:2 καταοἰκίζω that Solomon rebuilt the cities which Chiram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell in them.
- Ezra 4:10 καταοἰκίζω and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Assenaphar removed, and settled them in the cities of Somoron, and the rest of them beyond the river.
- Psalms 4:9 καταοἰκίζω
- Jeremiah 7:3 καταοἰκίζω Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Correct your ways and your devices, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
- Ezekiel 26:20 καταοἰκίζω and great waters shall cover you; and I shall bring you down to them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and shall cause you to dwell in the depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that you may not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life;
- Hosea 2:20 καταοἰκίζω and I will betroth you to myself in faithfulness: and you shall know the Lord.
- Zechariah 10:6 καταοἰκίζω And I will strengthen the house of Juda, and save the house of Joseph, and I will settle them; because I have loved them: and they shall be as if I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and I will hear them.
About this word
About this word
καταοἰκίζω (kataoikízō), “settle, cause to dwell,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 39 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →