Sense

1. to place under, to place under one's feet
2. to place under as a foundation or beginning, to be laid down, assumed, to lay down as a principle, take for granted, assume, to assume or suppose that . .
3. to hold out under, present, to suggest, to suggest, hint, to suggest, advise or counsel
4. to advise, admonish, to advise, to do
5. to propose, to propose to oneself
6. to put down as a deposit or stake, to pawn, pledge, mortgage, to lend, on pledge
7. to stake, hazard, venture

Examples

• καὶ ἀνέστη Ἰακὼβ τὸ πρωί̈ καὶ ἔλαβε τὸν λίθον, ὃν ὑπέθηκεν ἐκεῖ πρὸσ κεφαλῆσ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔστησεν αὐτὸν στήλην καὶ ἐπέχεεν ἔλαιον ἐπὶ τὸ ἄκρον αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 28:18)
• καὶ τὴν μὲν ἐπιστολὴν ὑπέθηκεν ὑπὸ τὸ προσκεφάλαιον, αἰτήσασ δὲ ποτήριον ἐκέλευσεν ἐγχεῖν, καὶ τὸν Φυλλίδαν ἐξέπεμπε συνεχῶσ ἐπὶ θύρασ σκεψόμενον εἰ τὰ γύναια πρόσεισι. (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 30 10:2)
• ὁ δὲ τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἀναγνοὺσ καὶ μηδενὶ δείξασ τῶν φίλων ὑπὸ τὸ προσκεφάλαιον ὑπέθηκεν. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 19 3:2)
• καὶ τὴν ἐπιστολὴν δεξάμενοσ ὑπὸ τὸ προσκεφάλαιον ὑπέθηκεν, αὐτὸσ δὲ πάλιν τῷ Φιλλίδᾳ περὶ ὧν ἐτύγχανον διαλεγόμενοι προσεῖχεν. (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 10 4:4)
• ἐν δὲ τῇ τότε τύχῃ μᾶλλον ὁ Θεμιστοκλῆσ φοβηθεὶσ συγγενῆ καὶ πρόσφατον φθόνον ὀργῆσ παλαιᾶσ καὶ βασιλικῆσ, ταύτῃ φέρων ὑπέθηκεν ἑαυτόν, ἱκέτησ τοῦ Ἀδμήτου καταστὰσ ἴδιόν τινα καὶ παρηλλαγμένον τρόπον. (Plutarch, , chapter 24 2:1)

Similar forms

• ὑποτίθης (1)
• ὑποτίθησιν (1)
• ὑποτίθησι (1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.