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 ἰδὼν τὴν ἀνάπαυσιν ὅτι καλή, καὶ τὴν γῆν ὅτι πίων, ὑπέθηκε τὸν ὦμον αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸ πονεῖν καὶ ἐγενήθη ἀνὴρ γεωργός. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 49:15)
• αἱ δὲ χεῖρες Μωυσῆ βαρεῖαι. καὶ λαβόντες λίθον ὑπέθηκαν ὑπ᾿ αὐτόν, καὶ ἐκάθητο ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῦ, καὶ Ἀαρὼν καὶ Ὢρ ἐστήριζον τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ, ἐντεῦθεν εἷς καὶ ἐντεῦθεν εἷς. καὶ ἐγένοντο αἱ χεῖρες Μωυσῆ ἐστηριγμέναι ἕως δυσμῶν ἡλίου. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 17:12)
• καὶ λαβὼν τὰ μαρτύρια ἐνέβαλεν εἰς τὴν κιβωτὸν καὶ ὑπέθηκε τοὺς διωστῆρας ὑπὸ τὴν κιβωτὸν (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 40:18)
• τῶν δὲ πληθῶν μελλόντων τὸν πύργον καταλαβέσθαι καὶ τὴν αὐλαίαν θύραν βιαζομένων καὶ κελευόντων πῦρ προσάγειν καὶ τὰς θύρας ὑφάπτειν, περικατάληπτος γενόμενος ὑπέθηκε ἑαυτῷ ξίφος, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 14:41)
• ἐν ᾗ παρεκάλει τοὺς Ἀθηναίους μὴ λύειν τὴν πρὸς βασιλέα γενομένην εἰρήνην μηδὲ προτέρους ἄρχειν τοῦ πολέμου, ἐὰν μὴ παρασκευάσωνται τὴν ναυτικὴν δύναμιν, ἐν ᾗ πλείστην εἶχον ἰσχύν, καὶ τὸν τρόπον τῆς παρασκευῆς αὐτὸς ὑποτίθεται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 4 1:1)

Similar forms

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

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