μεθιστημι
to transfer
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (40%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 1 time (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3179 appears — 5 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
Acts 2 verses
- Acts 13:22 μεταστήσας aor act ptcp nom sg masc When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.'
- Acts 19:26 μετέστησεν aor act ind 3sg You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.
1 Corinthians 1 verse
Colossians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, μεθιστημι (methístēmi) means “to transfer.” It is rare — just 5 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Acts (40% of all occurrences). First canonically at Luke 16:4, it enters the text early. From the same root come μετα, μεθερμηνευω and μεθοδεια. Dig into 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3179 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 2 verses 40%
- Luke 1 verse 20%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 20%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 60%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 40%
- Gospels 1 verse · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Hath translated 1×, He had removed 1×, I am put out 1×
- American Standard Version: He had removed 1×, I am put out 1×, Remove 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Brought 1×, Move 1×, Removal 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Has removed 1×, Having removed 1×, I am removed 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3179 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3179 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3179 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3179 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to transpose, transfer, remove from one place to another
Word origin
Derived from μετα (metá) (G3326) — with.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3179 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μετέστησεν metéstēsen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 19:26 | 2 |
| μεθιστάναι methistánai | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | 1 Corinthians 13:2 | 1 |
| μεταστήσας metastḗsas | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 13:22 | 1 |
| μετασταθῶ metastathō̂ | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular | Luke 16:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3179, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- μεθερμηνευω methermēneúō G3177 to interpret
- μεθοδεια methodeía G3180 deceit
- μεθοριος methórios G3181 border
- μεσος mésos G3319 middle
- μεταβαινω metabaínō G3327 to pass over
- μεταβαλλω metabállō G3328 to turn around
- μεταγω metágō G3329 to transfer
- μεταδιδωμι metadídōmi G3330 to impart
- μεταιρω metaírō G3332 to remove
- μετακαλεω metakaléō G3333 to summon
- μετακινεω metakinéō G3334 to move away
- μεταλαμβανω metalambánō G3335 to partake
- μεταλλασσω metallássō G3337 to exchange
- μεταμελλομαι metaméllomai G3338 it is a care
- μεταμορφοω metamorphóō G3339 to transform
- μετανοεω metanoéō G3340 to repent
- μεταξυ metaxý G3342 between
- μεταπεμπω metapémpō G3343 to send for
- μεταστρεφω metastréphō G3344 to turn around
- μετασχηματιζω metaschēmatízō G3345 to transform
- μετατιθημι metatíthēmi G3346 to transpose
- μετεπειτα metépeita G3347 afterwards
- μετεχω metéchō G3348 to partake
- μετεωριζω meteōrízō G3349 to be puffed up
+2 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 28 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μεθιστημι appears 18 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 16 verses in 10 books.
- 18
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 16
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 17:17 μεταἵστημι
- Joshua 14:8 μεταἵστημι
- Judges 9:29 μεταἵστημι
- 1 Samuel 6:12 μεταἵστημι
- 1 Kings 15:13 μεταἵστημι
- 2 Kings 3:2 μεταἵστημι
- 2 Chronicles 15:16 μεταἵστημι
- Isaiah 54:10 μεταἵστημι
- Daniel 2:21 μεταἵστημι
- Amos 5:23 μεταἵστημι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3179) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Deuteronomy 17:17 μεταἵστημι Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
- Deuteronomy 30:17 μεταἵστημι But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
- Joshua 14:8 μεταἵστημι Nevertheless my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.
- Judges 9:29 μεταἵστημι Would that this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech. He said to Abimelech, Increase your army, and come out.
- 1 Samuel 6:12 μεταἵστημι The cattle took the straight way by the way to Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
- 1 Kings 15:13 μεταἵστημι Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
- 1 Kings 18:29 μεταἵστημι It was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of the [evening] offering; but there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any who regarded.
- 2 Kings 3:2 μεταἵστημι He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.
- 2 Kings 12:4 μεταἵστημι Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of Yahweh, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of Yahweh,
- 2 Kings 17:23 μεταἵστημι until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he spoke by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day.
- 2 Kings 23:33 μεταἵστημι Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
- 2 Chronicles 15:16 μεταἵστημι Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
- Isaiah 54:10 μεταἵστημι For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
- Isaiah 59:15 μεταἵστημι Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him who there was no justice.
- Daniel 2:21 μεταἵστημι He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;
- Amos 5:23 μεταἵστημι Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3179) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.