Bible Verse Dictionary
Luke 8:16 - Setteth
Verse | Strongs No. | Greek | |
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No man | G3762 | οὐδείς |
not even one (man woman or thing) that is none: nobody nothing |
when he hath lighted | G681 | ἅπτω |
[Verb] properly to fasten to that is (specifically) to set on fire |
a candle | G3088 | λύχνος |
[Noun Masculine] a portable lamp or other illuminator (literally or figuratively) |
covereth | G2572 | καλύπτω |
[Verb] to cover up (literally or figuratively) |
it | G846 | αὐτός |
backward); the reflexive pronoun self used (alone or in the compound of G1438) of the third person and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons |
with a vessel | G4632 | σκεῦος |
[Noun Neuter] a vessel implement: equipment or apparatus (literally or figuratively [specifically a wife as contributing to the usefulness of the husband]) |
or | G2228 | ἤ |
disjunctive or; comparative than |
putteth | G5087 | τίθημι |
[Verb] to place (in the widest application literally and figuratively; properly in a passive or horizontal posture and thus different from G2476 which properly denotes an upright and active position while G2749 is properly reflexive and utterly prostrate) |
it | G846 | αὐτός |
backward); the reflexive pronoun self used (alone or in the compound of G1438) of the third person and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons |
under | G5270 | ὑποκάτω |
[Verb] down under that is beneath |
a bed | G2825 | κλίνη |
[Noun Neuter] a couch (for sleep sickness sitting or eating) |
but | G235 | ἀλλά |
[Conjunction] properly other things that is (adverbially) contrariwise (in many relations) |
setteth | G2007 | ἐπιτίθημι |
[Verb] to impose (in a friendly or hostile sense) |
it | G846 | αὐτός |
backward); the reflexive pronoun self used (alone or in the compound of G1438) of the third person and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons |
on | G1909 | ἐπί |
[Preposition] of rest (with the dative case) at on etc.; of direction (with the accusative case) towards upon etc.: about (the times) above after against among as long as (touching) at beside X-(idiom) have charge of (be- [where-]) fore in (a place as much as the time of -to) (because) of (up-) on (behalf of) over (by for) the space of through (-out) (un-) to (-ward) with. In compounds it retains essentially the same import at |
a candlestick | G3087 | λυχνία |
[Noun Feminine] a lamp stand (literally or figuratively) |
that | G2443 | ἵνα |
[Conjunction] compare G3588); in order that (denoting the purpose or the result) |
they which enter in | G1531 | εἰσπορεύομαι |
[Verb] to enter (literally or figuratively) |
may see | G991 | βλέπω |
[Verb] to look at (literally or figuratively) |
the | G3588 | ὁ |
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied at others omitted in English idiom) |
light | G5457 | φῶς |
[Noun Neuter] compare G5316 and G5346); luminousness (in the widest application natural or artificial abstract or concrete literal or figurative) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.