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τίθημι

to place

‘to place’ is one of 7 main senses fuller range ↓

G5087 Strong's Greek
títhēmi Transliteration
/tith'-ay-mee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 99 appearances

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τιθημι — transliterated títhēmi — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to place.” Translators differ — “laid” in the King James Version, then “placed” (Berean Standard Bible), as the renderings breakdown shows. The Greek New Testament uses it across 95 verses — moderately common. First canonically at Matthew 5:15, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 7 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Dig into 95-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
+ advise
Modern gloss
to place
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G5087 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 →

95
distinct verses
The word appears in 95 distinct verses.
16 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 16 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 5:15
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 5:15.
Revelation 11:9
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 11:9.
#171
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 171 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 95 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 46 · 48%
  • Acts 23 · 24%
  • Pauline Epistles 16 · 17%
  • General Epistles 7 · 7%
  • Revelation 3 · 3%

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 95 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 46 verses · 48%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 38 verses · 40%
  • Johannine 21 verses · 22%
  • Pauline corpus 16 verses · 17%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 4 verses · 4%
  • Hebrews 3 verses · 3%
  • Revelation 3 verses · 3%

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: Laid 10×, Put 8×, Down 5×
  • American Standard Version: Laid 12×, Put 8×, Lay 5×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Placed 7×, Laid 6×, Put 5×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Put 8×, Having put down 4×, Appoint 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G5087 across 101 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Laid” 10×
  • “Put” 8×
  • “Down” 5×
  • “Lay” 5×
  • “I make” 4×
  • “They laid” 4×
  • “Lay down” 3×
  • “Be put” 2×
  • “Hath” 2×
  • “I lay” 2×
  • “Kneeled down” 2×
  • “Putteth” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 50 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G5087 across 101 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Laid” 12×
  • “Put” 8×
  • “Lay” 5×
  • “Down” 4×
  • “They laid” 4×
  • “Lay down” 3×
  • “Appoint” 2×
  • “Hath set” 2×
  • “He kneeled” 2×
  • “I laid” 2×
  • “I lay” 2×
  • “Putteth” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 47 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G5087 across 98 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Placed” 7×
  • “Laid” 6×
  • “Put” 5×
  • “He knelt down” 3×
  • “I make” 3×
  • “Lay down” 3×
  • “Assign” 2×
  • “He placed” 2×
  • “I have made” 2×
  • “I lay” 2×
  • “I put” 2×
  • “Lay” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 51 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G5087 across 115 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Put” 8×
  • “Having put down” 4×
  • “Appoint” 3×
  • “Appointed” 3×
  • “I make” 3×
  • “It” 3×
  • “Lay” 3×
  • “Down” 2×
  • “He put” 2×
  • “I put” 2×
  • “Laid” 2×
  • “Lay down” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 66 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


7 senses in Thayer's, in lexicon order

The 7 senses 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.

  1. to place or lay
  2. to put down, lay down
  3. to set on (serve) something to eat or drink
  4. to set forth, something to be explained by discourse
  5. to make (or set) for one's self or for one's use
  6. to set forth
  7. to establish, ordain

Word origin

Origin: a prolonged form of a primary theo theh'-o (which is used only as alternate in certain tenses)

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 10:32,1

A prolonged form of a primary word θέω theō (which is used only as an alternate in certain tenses); 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): - + advise appoint bow commit conceive give X kneel down lay (aside down up) make ordain purpose put set (forth) settle sink down.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 41 distinct written forms G5087 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἔθηκεν éthēken Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 27:60 10
ἔθετο étheto Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 1:7 7
ἔθηκαν éthēkan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Mark 6:29 7
τίθησιν títhēsin Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 8:16 6
θῶ thō̂ Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular Matthew 22:44 5
τίθημι títhēmi Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular John 10:15 5
θεὶς theìs Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 22:41 4
θεῖναι theînai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Luke 5:18 4
ἔθεντο éthento Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Luke 1:66 4
θήσω thḗsō Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Matthew 12:18 3
ἔθηκα éthēka Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Luke 19:22 3
θέμενος thémenos Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 2 Corinthians 5:19 2
θήσει thḗsei Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 24:51 2
θῇ thē̂ Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular John 15:13 2
τέθεικά tétheiká Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Acts 13:47 2
τεθῇ tethē̂ Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Mark 4:21 2
τιθέναι tithénai Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive Acts 5:15 2
ἐτέθη etéthē Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 23:55 2
ἐτέθην etéthēn Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 1 Timothy 2:7 2
ἐτέθησαν etéthēsan Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 7:16 2
ἐτίθουν etíthoun Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 3:2 2
ἔθηκας éthēkas Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Luke 19:21 2
θέντες théntes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Acts 21:5 1
θέντος théntos Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Luke 14:29 1
θέσθε thésthe Verb, Aorist, Middle, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Luke 9:44 1
θέτε théte Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Luke 21:14 1
θήσεις thḗseis Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular John 13:38 1
θῶμεν thō̂men Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Mark 4:30 1
τέθειται tétheitai Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 15:47 1
τεθείκατε tetheíkate Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural John 11:34 1
τεθεικώς tetheikṓs Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 2 Peter 2:6 1
τεθῆναι tethē̂nai Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive Revelation 11:9 1
τεθῶσιν tethō̂sin Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural Hebrews 10:13 1
τιθέασιν tithéasin Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 5:15 1
τιθέντες tithéntes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Mark 15:19 1
τιθέτω tithétō Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 16:2 1
τιθεὶς titheìs Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Mark 10:16 1
ἐτίθει etíthei Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 Corinthians 3:13 1
ἐτίθεσαν etíthesan Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Mark 6:56 1
ἔθεσθε éthesthe Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Acts 5:25 1
ἔθου éthou Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Acts 5:4 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5087, 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.

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word τιθημι appears 467 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 447 verses in 37 books.

467
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
447
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
37 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 37 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5087) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 447. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5087) 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.

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