kaqivsthmi kaqivsthmi (also kaqistavw, whence the participle kaqistw'nte" R G; and kaqistavnw, whence kaqistavnonte" L T Tr WH; see i{sthmi, at the beginning); future katasthvsw; 1 aorist katevsthsa; passive, present kaqistamai; 1 aorist katestavqhn; 1 future katastaqhvsomai; the Septuagint for !ycihe, !yqihe, dyqip]hi, bXey"t]hi, dymi[>h,, @t'n:; (properly, to set down, put down), to set, place, put: a. tina ejpiv tivno", to set one over a thing (in charge of it), ; ,; ; ; also ejpiv tivni, ; ; ejpiv tiv, Rec. from . b. tina, to appoint one to administer an office (cf. German bestellen): presbutevrou", ; tina eij" tov with an infinitive, to appoint to do something, ; tav prov" tovn Qeovn to conduct the worship of God, ; followed by i{na, ibid.; tina with a predicate accusative indicating the office to be administered (to make one so and so; cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 32, 4b.; Buttmann, sec. 131, 7) (so very often in Greek writings from Herodotus down), ; ,,; . c. "to set down as, constitute (Latin sisto), equivalent to to declare, show to be": passive with aJmartwlov", divkaio", (cf. Prof. T. Dwight in New Englander for 1867, p. 590ff; Dietzsch, Adam u. Christus (Bonn, 1871), p. 188). d. "to constitute (Latin sisto) equivalent to to render, make, cause to be": tina oujk ajrgovn, oujdev ajkarpon, i. e. (by litotes) laborious and fruitful, . e. to conduct or bring to a certain place: tina, ( for aybihe; ; ; 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, ; hJ glw'ssa ... hJ spilou'sa, . (Compare: ajntikaqivsthmi, ajpokaqivsthmi.)*