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κάθημαι

Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάθημαι κάθημαι

Structure:

Sense

  1. to be seated
  2. to be seated in court
  3. to sit still, sit quietly, sit idly, do nothing
  4. to lead a sedentary, obscure life
  5. (of people) to be settled
  6. (of things) to be set or placed

Conjugation

Perfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ κάθημαι ἐναντίον ὑμῶν εἰσ Μασσηφὰ στῆναι κατὰ πρόσωπον τῶν Χαλδαίων, οἳ ἂν ἔλθωσιν ἐφ’ ὑμᾶσ, καὶ ὑμεῖσ συνάγετε οἶνον καὶ ὀπώραν καὶ ἔλαιον καὶ βάλετε εἰσ τὰ ἀγγεῖα ὑμῶν καὶ οἰκήσατε ἐν ταῖσ πόλεσιν, αἷσ κατεκρατήσατε. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 47:10)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ οἶδ’ ὅπερ μάλιστα λυπεῖ αὐτόν, ὅτι μὴ τὰ γλίσχρα ἐκεῖνα καὶ λεπτὰ κάθημαι πρὸσ αὐτὸν σμικρολογούμενοσ, εἰ ἀθάνατοσ ἡ ψυχή, καὶ πόσασ κοτύλασ ὁ θεὸσ ὁπότε τὸν κόσμον εἰργάσατο τῆσ ἀμιγοῦσ καὶ κατὰ ταὐτὰ ἐχούσησ οὐσίασ ἐνέχεεν εἰσ τὸν κρατῆρα ἐν ᾧ τὰ πάντα ἐκεράννυτο, καὶ εἰ ἡ Ῥητορικὴ πολιτικῆσ μορίου εἴδωλον, κολακείασ τὸ τέταρτον. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 34:3)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἀεὶ πρώτιστοσ εἰσ ἐκκλησίαν νοστῶν κάθημαι· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 1:15)
  • ἐγὼ γὰρ τὸν χειροτέχνην ὥσπερ δέσποιν’ ἐπαναγκάζουσα κάθημαι διὰ τὴν χρείαν καὶ τὴν πενίαν ζητεῖν ὁπόθεν βίον ἕξει. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Agon, epirrheme32)
  • τοῦτο γὰρ ποθοῦσ’ ἐγὼ πάλαι ἔνδον κάθημαι περιμένουσα τουτονί. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode10)

Synonyms

  1. to be seated

  2. to be seated in court

  3. to be settled

  4. to be set or placed

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