Lexicon
τίθημι
tithēmi
G5087
G:V Greek

to place

100
Occurrences
16
Books
Greek
Language

tithemi means to put someone or something in a location, position, or assigned role, including laying down one’s life.

The supplied verses most often show concrete placement: people, bodies, money, a veil, or other items are put at a stated location or position. The same verb also marks appointment or designation to a role or outcome, and in several passages it describes laying down one’s life.

Senses in use

  1. Putting someone or something in a location · dominant

    The aorist forms mark completed acts of location: in Acts 12:4 the APB renders a prisoner being placed in prison, while Acts 13:29 has a body laid in a tomb. In Acts 3:2 people repeatedly placed a lame man at the sacred-place door, and Acts 4:37 and John 19:42 describe money or a body being placed at a specified site.

  2. Assigning a role, position, or outcome · common

    In 1 Corinthians 12:18 and 1 Corinthians 12:28, the aorist middle form occurs where God arranges members in the body and appoints people in the assembly. The same pattern appears in 1 Thessalonians 5:9, where God has set an outcome, and in 1 Timothy 2:7, where the passive form marks the speaker as appointed preacher, apostle, and teacher.

  3. Laying down one’s life · occasional

    Present active forms in John 10:11, John 10:15, and John 10:17 occur in the clause about laying down life for the sheep and taking it up again. In 1 John 3:16, the completed act of laying down a soul is followed by the stated obligation to do the same for the brothers.

  4. Putting into a stated position or arrangement · occasional

    The verb can frame a specified positioning rather than a destination: in 1 Corinthians 15:25 and Hebrews 1:13 enemies are put as a footstool beneath feet. In 2 Corinthians 3:13 Moses repeatedly put a veil over his face, while 1 Corinthians 16:2 directs each person to put something aside.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB uses wording such as “placed,” “laid,” “put,” “appointed,” and “destined,” according to the clause’s setting. Those English variations show the verse-level presentation rather than fixed separate renderings of the term.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture