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Strong's #2521: kathemai (pronounced kath'-ay-mahee)

from 2596; and hemai (to sit; akin to the base of 1476); to sit down; figuratively, to remain, reside:--dwell, sit (by, down).




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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kathēmai

1) to sit down, seat one' s self

2) to sit, be seated, of a place occupied

2a) to have a fixed abode, to dwell

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G2596, and hemai (to sit, akin to the base of G1476)

Citing in TDNT: 3:440, 386




Usage:

This word is used 90 times:

Acts 14:8: "And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet,"
Acts 20:9: "And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus,"
Acts 23:3: "thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after"
1 Corinthians 14:30: "If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace."
Colossians 3:1: "those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God."
Hebrews 1:13: "angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until"
James 2:3: "and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and"
James 2:3: "thou there, or sit here under my footstool:"
Revelation 4:2: "in heaven, and one sat on the throne."
Revelation 4:3: "And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine"
Revelation 4:4: "the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting,"
Revelation 4:9: "honor and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth"
Revelation 4:10: "four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the"
Revelation 5:1: "in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book"
Revelation 5:7: "out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne."
Revelation 5:13: "glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and"
Revelation 6:2: "a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow;"
Revelation 6:4: "and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace"
Revelation 6:5: "a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances"
Revelation 6:8: "and his name that sat on him was Death, and"
Revelation 6:16: "us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and"
Revelation 7:10: "Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and"
Revelation 7:15: "in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne"
Revelation 9:17: "the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates"
Revelation 11:16: "the four and twenty elders, which sat before God"
Revelation 14:14: "upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having"
Revelation 14:15: "with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in"
Revelation 14:16: "And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle"
Revelation 17:1: "of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:"
Revelation 17:3: "the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast,"
Revelation 17:9: "on which the woman sitteth."
Revelation 17:15: "where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes,"
Revelation 18:7: "in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no"
Revelation 19:4: "beasts fell down and worshiped God that sat on the"
Revelation 19:11: "a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful"
Revelation 19:18: "the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh"
Revelation 19:19: "to make war against him that sat on the horse, and"
Revelation 19:21: "with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded"
Revelation 20:11: "white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose"
Revelation 21:5: "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make"









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