G2749 – keimai – κεῖμαι – to lay, set

Strong’s ID:: G2749
Greek Word:: κεῖμαι
Transliteration:: keimai
Pronunciation:: ki’-mahee
Part of Speech:: verb
Etymology:: middle voice of a primary verb
Usage Count:: 26
Search:: Find “keimai” in the Bible (New Testament)

Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon

to lay, set

Strong’s Greek Lexicon

middle voice of a primary verb; to lie outstretched (literally or figuratively):—be (appointed, laid up, made, set), lay, lie. Compare G5087.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) to lie
1a) of an infant
1b) of one buried
1c) of things that quietly cover some spot
1c1) of a city situated on a hill
1d) of things put or set in any place, in ref. to which we often use “to stand”
1d1) of vessels, of a throne, of the site of a city, of grain and other things laid up together, of a foundation
2) metaphorically
2a) to be (by God’s intent) set, i.e. destined, appointed
2b) of laws, to be made, laid down
2c) lies in the power of the evil one, i.e. is held in subjection by the devil

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.