καθίστημι

καθίστημι — kathístēmi

καθίστημι (also καθιστάω, whence the participle καθιστῶντες Act 17:15 R G; and καθιστάνω, whence καθιστάνοντες Act 17:15 L T Tr WH; see ἵστημι, at the beginning); future καταστήσω; 1 aorist κατέστησα; passive, present καθισταμαι; 1 aorist κατεστάθην; 1 future κατασταθήσομαι; the Sept. for הֵשִׂים, הֵקִים, הִפְקִיד, הִתְיַצֵּב, הֶעֱמִיד, נָתַן; (properly, to set down, put down), to set, place, put:

a. τινα ἐπί τίνος, to set one over a thing (in charge of it), Mat 24:45; Mat 25:21; Mat 25:23; Luk 12:42; Act 6:3; also ἐπί τίνι, Mat 24:47; Luk 12:44; ἐπί τί, Heb 2:7 Rec. from Psa 8:7.

b. τινα, to appoint one to administer an office (cf. German bestellen): πρεσβυτέρους, Tit 1:5; τινα εἰς τό with an infinitive, to appoint to do something, Heb 8:3; τά πρός τόν Θεόν to conduct the worship of God, Heb 5:1; followed by ἵνα, ibid.; τινα with a predicate accusative indicating the office to be administered (to make one so and so; cf. Winers Grammar, § 32, 4b.; Buttmann, § 131, 7) (so very often in Greek writings from Herodotus down), Luk 12:14; Act 7:10; Act 7:27; Act 7:35; Heb 7:28.

c. "to set down as, constitute (Latinsisto), equivalent to to declare, show to be": passive with ἁμαρτωλός, δίκαιος, Rom 5:19 (cf. Prof. T. Dwight in New Englander for 1867, p. 590ff; Dietzsch, Adam u. Christus (Bonn, 1871), p. 188).

d. "to constitute (Latinsisto) equivalent to to render, make, cause to be": τινα οὐκ ἀργόν, οὐδέ ἀκαρπον, i. e. (by litotes) laborious and fruitful, 2Pe 1:8.

e. to conduct or bring to a certain place: τινα, Act 17:15 (2Ch 28:15 for הֵבִיא; Jos 6:23; 1Sa 5:3; Homer, Odyssey 13, 274; Xenophon, an. 4, 8, 8 and in other secular authors).

f. Middle to show or exhibit oneself; come forward as: with a predicate nominative, Jas 4:4; ἡ γλῶσσα... ἡ σπιλοῦσα, Jas 3:6. (Compare: ἀντικαθίστημι, ἀποκαθίστημι.)