"to sit down by, Lk. 10:39*"
Definition and meaning
to sit down by, Lk. 10:39*
In the original Greek the word is written: παρακαθέζομαι
Historical context
Luke wrote as a historian addressing a Greek audience. He carefully interviewed eyewitnesses and arranged events in order. The social and economic realities he describes — Roman taxation, Jewish religious hierarchy, the marginalization of women and the poor — are consistent with first-century Judea under Roman administration.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of parakathezomai (G3868) across the King James Bible.
And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
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Common questions
Strong's G3868 (parakathezomai) is a Greek word that means: to sit down by, Lk. 10:39* It appears 9 times in the King James Bible.
The word parakathezomai (G3868) appears 9 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G3868 is parakathezomai, a Greek word defined as: to sit down by, Lk. 10:39*. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
parakathezomai is a Greek word found in the New Testament.