Strong G2749κεῖμαι
to lay/be appointed
- Transliteration
- keimai
- Pronunciation
- ki'-mahee
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Middle voice of a primary verb; to lie outstretched (literally or figuratively): - be (appointed laid up made set) lay lie. Compare G5087 .
Detailed definition
κεῖμαι
[in LXX: Jer.24:1 (יָעַד hoph,), al.;]
used as passive of τίθημι (LS, see word), to be laid, to lie;
__(a) of persons: an infant, Luk.2:12, 16; a dead body, Mat.28:6, Luk.23:53, Jhn.20:12;
__(b) of things, to lie, be laid or set, stand: Mat.5:14, Jhn.2:6 19:29 20:5-7 21:9, Rev.4:2 21:16; trop., Θεμέλιος, 1Co.3:11; before prep. with accusative, πρός, Mat.3:10, Luk.3:9; εἰς, Luk.12:19; ἐπί, trop., κάλυμμα, 2Co.3:15. Metaphorical, ὁ κόσμος ἐν τ. πονηριῷ κ., 1Jn.5:19; to be laid down, appointed: of law, with dative of person(s), 1Ti.1:9; before εἰς with accusative (of purpose), Luk.2:34, Php.1:16, 1Th.3:3
(cf. ἀνά-, συν-ανά-, ἀντί-, ἀπό-, ἐπί-, κατά-, παρά-, περί-, πρό-κειμαι).†
(AS)
[in LXX: Jer.24:1 (יָעַד hoph,), al.;]
used as passive of τίθημι (LS, see word), to be laid, to lie;
__(a) of persons: an infant, Luk.2:12, 16; a dead body, Mat.28:6, Luk.23:53, Jhn.20:12;
__(b) of things, to lie, be laid or set, stand: Mat.5:14, Jhn.2:6 19:29 20:5-7 21:9, Rev.4:2 21:16; trop., Θεμέλιος, 1Co.3:11; before prep. with accusative, πρός, Mat.3:10, Luk.3:9; εἰς, Luk.12:19; ἐπί, trop., κάλυμμα, 2Co.3:15. Metaphorical, ὁ κόσμος ἐν τ. πονηριῷ κ., 1Jn.5:19; to be laid down, appointed: of law, with dative of person(s), 1Ti.1:9; before εἰς with accusative (of purpose), Luk.2:34, Php.1:16, 1Th.3:3
(cf. ἀνά-, συν-ανά-, ἀντί-, ἀπό-, ἐπί-, κατά-, παρά-, περί-, πρό-κειμαι).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2749 appears in 26 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- lay6
- lie6
- set6
- be2
- lieth2
- appoint1
- laid1
- lain1
- make1
- there1
First verses
- Matthew 3:10And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
- Matthew 5:14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
- Matthew 28:6He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
- Luke 2:12And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
- Luke 2:16And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
- Luke 2:34And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
- Luke 3:9And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
- Luke 12:19And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
- Luke 23:53And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
- Luke 24:12Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.
- John 2:6And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
- John 11:41Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
- John 19:29Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
- John 20:5And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.
- John 20:6Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,
- John 20:7And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
- John 20:12And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
- John 21:9As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
- 1 Corinthians 3:11For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 3:15But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
κεῖμαι, κεῖσαι
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.319, etc. (κατά-κειαι “hymnus ad Mercurium” 254, 4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus κεῖοι “Tab.Defix.” in “Philol.” 59.201), κεῖται 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.47, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.9, 4.62 (variant κέεται), “IG” 12.94.25; _plural_ κεῖνται 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 242)], Ionic dialect κέᾰται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.659, +others, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (προσ-κέανται is _falsa lectio_ 1.133, compare προσ-κέαται, variant -κέονται, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 6), κείᾰται 6th c.BC: Mimnermus Lyricus 11.6 (κατα- 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.567), κέονται 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.510, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.232, probably in 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 94, συγ-κέονται 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 2.4)]; imperative κεῖσο, κείσθω, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.178, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.171)]; subjunctive 3rd.pers. singular κέηται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 257c, 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 113, _Epic dialect_ κεῖται (from κέψ-ε-ται) 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.32, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.102, +others, δια-κέησθε 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.259, κείωνται “IG” 22.1176.21)]; optative 3rd.pers. singular κέοιτο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.67, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 14 (κατα-), 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.32, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 477a)]; infinitive κεῖσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.126, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 3, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.127, +others, κέεσθαι variant in [prev. work] 2, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 6, 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ ἰσορροπιῶν” 1 “Prooem.”)]; participle κεί μενος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.265, etc.)]: imperfect ἐκείμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.284, etc.)], Epic dialect κείμην [Refs (9.434)]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular κέσκετο [Refs (21.41, (παρε-) 14.521)]; Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural ἐκέατο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.167)], Epic dialect κέατο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.763, κείατο 11.162; κεῖντο 21.426, (ἐπέ-) 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.19)]: future κείσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.121, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 895, etc.)], Doric dialect κεισεῦμαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 3.53)]. (Cf. Sanskrit śéte (={κεῖται}), also śáyate 'lie', Gr. κοίτη, κοιμάομαι, perhaps Latin cunae, etc.):—to be laid (used as passive to τίθημι): hence, lie, lie outstretched, used by [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] mostly with Preps., πυρὴν.. ᾗ ἔνι κεῖται Πάτροκλος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.210; κεῖτο παρὰ μνηστῇ ἀλόχῳ 9.556; ἐπὶ γαίῃ 11.162; ὑπ᾽ αἰθούσῃ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.390; also ἐπί τινος, ὀστέα.. κείμεν᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἠπείρου 1.162; τὸ δ᾽ ἥμισυ κεῖτ᾽ ἐπὶ γαίης 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.565, compare 20.345)]; but ὁ δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἐννέα κεῖτο πέλεθρα lay stretched over.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.577, +others)]; later κεῖσθαι εἰς.., in pregnant sense, εἰς ἀνάγκην κείμεθ᾽ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 620; εἰς ὀλίγην κ. κόνιν “Anthologia Graeca” 9.677 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus))]; also ἐπὶ τὴν ὁδὸν κ. to be strewn upon the path, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Iambi” 1.250: Architecture texts, κείμενον σχῆμα, opposed to ὠρθωμένον)], plan, opposed to elevation, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus “Abhandlungen der Göttinger Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Phil.-hist. Klasse)” 163.3: c._accusative_, τόπον.. ὅντινα κεῖται 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 145 (_anapaest meter_).)]
2 lie down to rest, repose, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.281, etc.; πορφυρέᾳ κείμενος ἐν χλανίδι 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 37.12)]; lie, remain, κεῖτο γὰρ ἐν νήεσσι.. Ἀχιλλεύς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.688, compare 7.230, etc.; οὐ χρῆν ἥσυχον κεῖσθαι πόδα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 142.13)]; lie still, λασίην ὑπὸ γαστέρ᾽ ἐλυσθεὶς κείμην, of Odysseus under the ram's belly, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.434: _metaphorically_, κακὸν κείμενον)] a sleeping evil, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 510 (Lyric poetry); τοῦ κύματος κειμένου 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 15.5.)]
3 lie sick or wounded, ἐν νήσῳ κεῖτο, of Philoctetes, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.721, compare 15.240; κείσεται οὐτηθείς 8.537, compare 11.659; γήραϊ λυγρῷ κεῖται ἐνὶ μεγάροις ἀρημένος 18.435; κεῖτ᾽ ὀλιγηπελέων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.457)]; lie in misery, ἐοικότι κεῖται ὀλέθρῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1.46; κεῖται ἐν ἄλγεσι θυμός 21.88, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 183 (Lyric poetry); κ. ἐν κακοῖς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1639, “Hec.” 969)]; κειμένῳ ἐπεμπηδᾶν to kick him when he's down, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 550.)]
4 lie dead, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.467, 16.541, +others, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1438, 1446, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 359; κεῖται δὲ νεκρὸς περὶ νεκρῷ [prev. author] “Ant.” 1240)]: rare in Prose, χίλιοι.. νεκροὶ κείμενοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.25, compare 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 2.1.8.)]
4.b frequently also in epitaphs, lie buried, τῇδε κείμεθα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 92, compare 97; κεῖσαι ζῶν ἔτι μᾶλλον τῶν ὑπὸ γᾶς [prev. author] 60; also κ. ἐν Ταρ τάρῳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.15)]; ἐν τάφῳ, ἐν Ἅιδου, παρ᾽ Ἅιδῃ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 895, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 463, “OT” 972)]; also in Prose, τὸν χῶρον ἐν τῷ κέοιτο Ὀρέστης [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.67, compare 4.11, 9.105, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.43)]; κ.ὑπό τινων to be buried by.., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.583c.)]
5 frequently of a corpse, lie unburied, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.338, 19.32; κεῖται.. νέκυς ἄκλαυτος ἄθαπτος 22.386; μὴ δή με ἕλωρ Δαναοῖσιν ἐάσῃς κεῖσθαι 5.685)]; also κεῖτ᾽ ἀπόθεστος.. ἐν πολλῇ κόπρῳ lay uncared for, of the old hound of Odysseus, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.296; εὐνὴ.. κάκ᾽ ἀράχνια κεῖται ἔχουσα 16.35)]; of places, lie in ruins, δόμοι.. χαμαιπετεῖς ἔκεισθ᾽ ἀεί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 964 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 425a, 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 252.)]
6 of wrestlers, have a fall, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 590; πεσών γε κείσομαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 126.)]
II of places, to be situated, lie, νῆσος ἀπόπροθεν εἰν ἁλὶ κεῖται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.244, compare 9.25, 10.196)], etc.; ἐν τῇ [γῇ] κείμενά ἐστι τὰ Σοῦσα (for κεῖται) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.49; Αἴγινα.. πρὸς νότου κ. πνοάς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 404; πρὸ Μεγάρων κ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.51; πόλις αὐτάρκη θέσιν κειμένη [prev. author] 1.37; θέσιν κέεσθαι νοσερωτάτην 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 6,compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 496a14)]; κ. πρὸς τὸν ἥλιον, πρὸς ἄρκτον, [Refs ([prev. author] “Mete.” 360b14, 363a3.)]
II.2 of things, lie or be in a place, ὅθι οἱ φίλα δέμνι᾽ ἔκειτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.277)]; ἕλε δίφρον κείμενον placed there, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (17.331, compare 410; φόρμιγγα.., ἥ που κεῖται ἐν ἡμετέροισι δόμοισι 8.255: in Prose, δύο τράπεζαι ἐκείσθην 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.37; χύτρας εὐκρινῶς κειμένας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 8.19.)]
II.3 fit, of shoes, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.121.)]
II.4 κεῖσθαι, posture, attitude, as a category, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Categoriae” 2a2.)]
III to be laid up, in store, of goods, property, etc., δόμοις ἐν κτήματα κεῖται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.382; πολλὰ δ᾽ ἐν ἀφνειοῦ πατρὸς κειμήλια κ. 6.47)]; βασιλῆϊ δὲ κεῖται ἄγαλμα is reserved.., [Refs (4.144)]; μνῆμα ξείνοιο.. κέσκετ᾽ ἐνὶ μεγάροισι was left lying.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.41)]; of things dedicated to a god, κ. ἐν θησαυρῷ [Refs 7th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.51, compare 52, 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 94)]; of money, κείμενα deposits, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.86. ; κ. σοι εὐεργεσία ἐν τῷ ἡμετέρῳ οἴκῳ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.129, compare “SIG” 22.15 (Epist. Darei), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 345a)]; πολλὰ χρήματα ἐπὶ τῇ τούτου τραπέζῃ κεῖταί μοι at his bank, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 17.44; παρά τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 346c)]; τἀργύριόν σοι κείσεται the caution-money shall be deposited, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 624)]; δραχ μὴν ὑπόθες.—Answ. κεῖται πάλαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 73.2: _metaphorically_, εἰ ταῦτ᾽ ἀνατὶ τῇδε κείσεται κράτη)] shall be placed to her credit, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 485, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 5(4).18.)]
IV to be placed in position, τῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ τοίχου.. κειμένων κιόνων [Refs (“IG” 12.372.46.)]
IV.2 to be set up, ordained, ἄεθλα κεῖτ᾽ ἐν ἀγῶνι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.273, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.26, 93, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.46; ὅπλων ἔκειτ᾽ ἀγὼν πέρι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 936 (Lyric poetry).)]
IV.3 of laws, κεῖται νόμος the law is laid down, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 292; νόμοι ἐπ᾽ ὠφελίᾳ τῶν ἀδικουμένων κεῖνται 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37; νόμοι κεῖνται περί τινος 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.2)]; οἱ νόμοι οἱ κείμενοι the established laws, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 914, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.48, etc.; οἱ ὑπὸ τῶν θεῶν κείμενοι νόμοι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.4.21; οἱ νόμοι οἱ ὑπὸ οἱ τῶν βασιλέων κείμενοι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.36, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.62; καινὰ κεῖσθαι θέσμι᾽ ἀνθρώποις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 494)]; αἱ κείμεναι ὑπὸ τῶν ὑπατικῶν γνῶμαι the votes given by.., [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 7.47)]; οὐκέτι κ. ἡ διαθήκη no longer holds, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.32)]; so of philosophical arguments, hold good, κατά τινων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.51 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus; θάνατος ὧν κεῖται πέρι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 750; κείμεναι ζημίαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.9, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.45.)]
IV.4 to be laid down in argument, posited, assumed, τοῦτο ἡμῖν οὕτω κείσθω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 350d, etc.; ὡμολογημένον ἡμῖν κ. [prev. author] “Plt.” 300e; frequently in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus, κείσθω)]let it be assumed, [Refs (“Apr.” 34b23, +others)]; τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς κείμενον the assumption, [Refs (“Metaphorical” 1008b2, 1047b10)](plural); τὰ περὶ τὴν διάνοιαν ἐν τοῖς περὶ ῥητορικῆς κ. [Refs (“Po.” 1456a35.)]
IV.5 of names, οὔνομα κεῖται the name is given, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.184, 7.200, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.12, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 257c, etc.)]; ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς κείμενον [ὄνομα] [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 3.32)]; κεῖσθαι without ὄνομα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 392d)]; κείμενα ὀόματα established terms, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 140a3, 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 96.)]
IV.6 metaphorically, πάντα δεινὰ κἀπικινδύνως βροτοῖς κεῖται, παθεῖν μὲν εὖ, παθεῖν δὲ θάτερα danger is set before men, that they may.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 503.)]
V metaphorically, of continuing conditions, ἐνὶ φρεσὶ πένθος ἔκειτο lay heavy, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.423)]; εὔστομα κείσθω remain unspoken, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.171)]; νεῖκος ἔκειτό τισι there was an enduring feud, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 491 (Lyric poetry))]; Ἑλλήνων κείσομαι ἐν στόματι my name shall be a household word, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (Anthologia Graeca 9.62 (5th c.BC: Evenus Elegiacus); πολλῶν κείμενος ἐν στόμασιν 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 240; εὖ κείμενα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 693)]; μὴ κινεῖν (i.e. κακὸν) εὖ κείμενον 'let sleeping dogs lie', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 15c, compare 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Fragmenta” 30, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus)]
V.2 ταῦτα θεῶν ἐν γούνασι κεῖται, i.e. these things are yet in the power of the gods, to give or not, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.514, 20.435.)]
V.3 κεῖσθαι ἔν τινι to rest entirely or be dependent on him, ἐν ἀγαθοῖσι κ. πολίων κυβερνάσιες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.71; ἐν ὔμμι ὡς θεῷ κείμεθα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 248 (Lyric poetry); also ἐπί τινι, τὰ δ᾽ οὐκ ἐπ᾽ ἀνδράσι κ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.76)]: also with simple dative, Λεωφίλῳ πάντα κεῖται [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 69, probably in “Comica Adespota” 1325)]; of things, depend upon, τὸ πανηγυρικὸν ἐν μελέτῃ καὶ τριβῇ κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.93 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus; τὰ.. γυμνάσια ἐν τῇ κινήσει κ. 2nd c.AD: Antyllus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 6.23.1.)]
V.4 in Medicine texts, to be left to settle, of urine, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.26.β.)]
V.4.b φάρυγξ οὐ φλεγμαίνουσα, κειμένη δέ[Refs (, i.e. not swollen, [prev. work] 2.2.24.)]
V.5 Grammars, of words and phrases, to be found, occur, παρὰ τῷ ποιητῃ [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 7.3.6, compare 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 2.58b; κεῖται ἐν τῷ Περὶ Πλούτου 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ οἰκονομίας” p.39 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]; ποῦ κεῖτα; [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 4.165d)], compare Κειτούκειτο; κ. ἀντί τινος to be used instead of.., [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.6.7)]; τὸ κείμενον the received text, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia vulgar form 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.48.)]
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.319, etc. (κατά-κειαι “hymnus ad Mercurium” 254, 4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus κεῖοι “Tab.Defix.” in “Philol.” 59.201), κεῖται 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.47, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.9, 4.62 (variant κέεται), “IG” 12.94.25; _plural_ κεῖνται 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 242)], Ionic dialect κέᾰται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.659, +others, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (προσ-κέανται is _falsa lectio_ 1.133, compare προσ-κέαται, variant -κέονται, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 6), κείᾰται 6th c.BC: Mimnermus Lyricus 11.6 (κατα- 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.567), κέονται 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.510, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.232, probably in 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 94, συγ-κέονται 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 2.4)]; imperative κεῖσο, κείσθω, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.178, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.171)]; subjunctive 3rd.pers. singular κέηται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 257c, 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 113, _Epic dialect_ κεῖται (from κέψ-ε-ται) 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.32, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.102, +others, δια-κέησθε 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.259, κείωνται “IG” 22.1176.21)]; optative 3rd.pers. singular κέοιτο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.67, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 14 (κατα-), 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.32, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 477a)]; infinitive κεῖσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.126, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 3, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.127, +others, κέεσθαι variant in [prev. work] 2, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 6, 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ ἰσορροπιῶν” 1 “Prooem.”)]; participle κεί μενος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.265, etc.)]: imperfect ἐκείμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.284, etc.)], Epic dialect κείμην [Refs (9.434)]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular κέσκετο [Refs (21.41, (παρε-) 14.521)]; Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural ἐκέατο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.167)], Epic dialect κέατο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.763, κείατο 11.162; κεῖντο 21.426, (ἐπέ-) 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.19)]: future κείσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.121, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 895, etc.)], Doric dialect κεισεῦμαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 3.53)]. (Cf. Sanskrit śéte (={κεῖται}), also śáyate 'lie', Gr. κοίτη, κοιμάομαι, perhaps Latin cunae, etc.):—to be laid (used as passive to τίθημι): hence, lie, lie outstretched, used by [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] mostly with Preps., πυρὴν.. ᾗ ἔνι κεῖται Πάτροκλος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.210; κεῖτο παρὰ μνηστῇ ἀλόχῳ 9.556; ἐπὶ γαίῃ 11.162; ὑπ᾽ αἰθούσῃ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.390; also ἐπί τινος, ὀστέα.. κείμεν᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἠπείρου 1.162; τὸ δ᾽ ἥμισυ κεῖτ᾽ ἐπὶ γαίης 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.565, compare 20.345)]; but ὁ δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἐννέα κεῖτο πέλεθρα lay stretched over.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.577, +others)]; later κεῖσθαι εἰς.., in pregnant sense, εἰς ἀνάγκην κείμεθ᾽ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 620; εἰς ὀλίγην κ. κόνιν “Anthologia Graeca” 9.677 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus))]; also ἐπὶ τὴν ὁδὸν κ. to be strewn upon the path, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Iambi” 1.250: Architecture texts, κείμενον σχῆμα, opposed to ὠρθωμένον)], plan, opposed to elevation, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus “Abhandlungen der Göttinger Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Phil.-hist. Klasse)” 163.3: c._accusative_, τόπον.. ὅντινα κεῖται 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 145 (_anapaest meter_).)]
2 lie down to rest, repose, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.281, etc.; πορφυρέᾳ κείμενος ἐν χλανίδι 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 37.12)]; lie, remain, κεῖτο γὰρ ἐν νήεσσι.. Ἀχιλλεύς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.688, compare 7.230, etc.; οὐ χρῆν ἥσυχον κεῖσθαι πόδα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 142.13)]; lie still, λασίην ὑπὸ γαστέρ᾽ ἐλυσθεὶς κείμην, of Odysseus under the ram's belly, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.434: _metaphorically_, κακὸν κείμενον)] a sleeping evil, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 510 (Lyric poetry); τοῦ κύματος κειμένου 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 15.5.)]
3 lie sick or wounded, ἐν νήσῳ κεῖτο, of Philoctetes, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.721, compare 15.240; κείσεται οὐτηθείς 8.537, compare 11.659; γήραϊ λυγρῷ κεῖται ἐνὶ μεγάροις ἀρημένος 18.435; κεῖτ᾽ ὀλιγηπελέων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.457)]; lie in misery, ἐοικότι κεῖται ὀλέθρῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1.46; κεῖται ἐν ἄλγεσι θυμός 21.88, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 183 (Lyric poetry); κ. ἐν κακοῖς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1639, “Hec.” 969)]; κειμένῳ ἐπεμπηδᾶν to kick him when he's down, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 550.)]
4 lie dead, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.467, 16.541, +others, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1438, 1446, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 359; κεῖται δὲ νεκρὸς περὶ νεκρῷ [prev. author] “Ant.” 1240)]: rare in Prose, χίλιοι.. νεκροὶ κείμενοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.25, compare 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 2.1.8.)]
4.b frequently also in epitaphs, lie buried, τῇδε κείμεθα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 92, compare 97; κεῖσαι ζῶν ἔτι μᾶλλον τῶν ὑπὸ γᾶς [prev. author] 60; also κ. ἐν Ταρ τάρῳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.15)]; ἐν τάφῳ, ἐν Ἅιδου, παρ᾽ Ἅιδῃ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 895, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 463, “OT” 972)]; also in Prose, τὸν χῶρον ἐν τῷ κέοιτο Ὀρέστης [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.67, compare 4.11, 9.105, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.43)]; κ.ὑπό τινων to be buried by.., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.583c.)]
5 frequently of a corpse, lie unburied, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.338, 19.32; κεῖται.. νέκυς ἄκλαυτος ἄθαπτος 22.386; μὴ δή με ἕλωρ Δαναοῖσιν ἐάσῃς κεῖσθαι 5.685)]; also κεῖτ᾽ ἀπόθεστος.. ἐν πολλῇ κόπρῳ lay uncared for, of the old hound of Odysseus, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.296; εὐνὴ.. κάκ᾽ ἀράχνια κεῖται ἔχουσα 16.35)]; of places, lie in ruins, δόμοι.. χαμαιπετεῖς ἔκεισθ᾽ ἀεί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 964 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 425a, 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 252.)]
6 of wrestlers, have a fall, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 590; πεσών γε κείσομαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 126.)]
II of places, to be situated, lie, νῆσος ἀπόπροθεν εἰν ἁλὶ κεῖται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.244, compare 9.25, 10.196)], etc.; ἐν τῇ [γῇ] κείμενά ἐστι τὰ Σοῦσα (for κεῖται) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.49; Αἴγινα.. πρὸς νότου κ. πνοάς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 404; πρὸ Μεγάρων κ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.51; πόλις αὐτάρκη θέσιν κειμένη [prev. author] 1.37; θέσιν κέεσθαι νοσερωτάτην 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 6,compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 496a14)]; κ. πρὸς τὸν ἥλιον, πρὸς ἄρκτον, [Refs ([prev. author] “Mete.” 360b14, 363a3.)]
II.2 of things, lie or be in a place, ὅθι οἱ φίλα δέμνι᾽ ἔκειτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.277)]; ἕλε δίφρον κείμενον placed there, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (17.331, compare 410; φόρμιγγα.., ἥ που κεῖται ἐν ἡμετέροισι δόμοισι 8.255: in Prose, δύο τράπεζαι ἐκείσθην 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.37; χύτρας εὐκρινῶς κειμένας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 8.19.)]
II.3 fit, of shoes, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.121.)]
II.4 κεῖσθαι, posture, attitude, as a category, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Categoriae” 2a2.)]
III to be laid up, in store, of goods, property, etc., δόμοις ἐν κτήματα κεῖται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.382; πολλὰ δ᾽ ἐν ἀφνειοῦ πατρὸς κειμήλια κ. 6.47)]; βασιλῆϊ δὲ κεῖται ἄγαλμα is reserved.., [Refs (4.144)]; μνῆμα ξείνοιο.. κέσκετ᾽ ἐνὶ μεγάροισι was left lying.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.41)]; of things dedicated to a god, κ. ἐν θησαυρῷ [Refs 7th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.51, compare 52, 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 94)]; of money, κείμενα deposits, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.86. ; κ. σοι εὐεργεσία ἐν τῷ ἡμετέρῳ οἴκῳ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.129, compare “SIG” 22.15 (Epist. Darei), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 345a)]; πολλὰ χρήματα ἐπὶ τῇ τούτου τραπέζῃ κεῖταί μοι at his bank, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 17.44; παρά τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 346c)]; τἀργύριόν σοι κείσεται the caution-money shall be deposited, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 624)]; δραχ μὴν ὑπόθες.—Answ. κεῖται πάλαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 73.2: _metaphorically_, εἰ ταῦτ᾽ ἀνατὶ τῇδε κείσεται κράτη)] shall be placed to her credit, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 485, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 5(4).18.)]
IV to be placed in position, τῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ τοίχου.. κειμένων κιόνων [Refs (“IG” 12.372.46.)]
IV.2 to be set up, ordained, ἄεθλα κεῖτ᾽ ἐν ἀγῶνι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.273, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.26, 93, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.46; ὅπλων ἔκειτ᾽ ἀγὼν πέρι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 936 (Lyric poetry).)]
IV.3 of laws, κεῖται νόμος the law is laid down, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 292; νόμοι ἐπ᾽ ὠφελίᾳ τῶν ἀδικουμένων κεῖνται 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37; νόμοι κεῖνται περί τινος 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.2)]; οἱ νόμοι οἱ κείμενοι the established laws, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 914, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.48, etc.; οἱ ὑπὸ τῶν θεῶν κείμενοι νόμοι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.4.21; οἱ νόμοι οἱ ὑπὸ οἱ τῶν βασιλέων κείμενοι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.36, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.62; καινὰ κεῖσθαι θέσμι᾽ ἀνθρώποις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 494)]; αἱ κείμεναι ὑπὸ τῶν ὑπατικῶν γνῶμαι the votes given by.., [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 7.47)]; οὐκέτι κ. ἡ διαθήκη no longer holds, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.32)]; so of philosophical arguments, hold good, κατά τινων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.51 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus; θάνατος ὧν κεῖται πέρι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 750; κείμεναι ζημίαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.9, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.45.)]
IV.4 to be laid down in argument, posited, assumed, τοῦτο ἡμῖν οὕτω κείσθω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 350d, etc.; ὡμολογημένον ἡμῖν κ. [prev. author] “Plt.” 300e; frequently in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus, κείσθω)]let it be assumed, [Refs (“Apr.” 34b23, +others)]; τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς κείμενον the assumption, [Refs (“Metaphorical” 1008b2, 1047b10)](plural); τὰ περὶ τὴν διάνοιαν ἐν τοῖς περὶ ῥητορικῆς κ. [Refs (“Po.” 1456a35.)]
IV.5 of names, οὔνομα κεῖται the name is given, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.184, 7.200, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.12, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 257c, etc.)]; ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς κείμενον [ὄνομα] [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 3.32)]; κεῖσθαι without ὄνομα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 392d)]; κείμενα ὀόματα established terms, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 140a3, 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 96.)]
IV.6 metaphorically, πάντα δεινὰ κἀπικινδύνως βροτοῖς κεῖται, παθεῖν μὲν εὖ, παθεῖν δὲ θάτερα danger is set before men, that they may.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 503.)]
V metaphorically, of continuing conditions, ἐνὶ φρεσὶ πένθος ἔκειτο lay heavy, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.423)]; εὔστομα κείσθω remain unspoken, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.171)]; νεῖκος ἔκειτό τισι there was an enduring feud, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 491 (Lyric poetry))]; Ἑλλήνων κείσομαι ἐν στόματι my name shall be a household word, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (Anthologia Graeca 9.62 (5th c.BC: Evenus Elegiacus); πολλῶν κείμενος ἐν στόμασιν 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 240; εὖ κείμενα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 693)]; μὴ κινεῖν (i.e. κακὸν) εὖ κείμενον 'let sleeping dogs lie', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 15c, compare 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Fragmenta” 30, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus)]
V.2 ταῦτα θεῶν ἐν γούνασι κεῖται, i.e. these things are yet in the power of the gods, to give or not, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.514, 20.435.)]
V.3 κεῖσθαι ἔν τινι to rest entirely or be dependent on him, ἐν ἀγαθοῖσι κ. πολίων κυβερνάσιες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.71; ἐν ὔμμι ὡς θεῷ κείμεθα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 248 (Lyric poetry); also ἐπί τινι, τὰ δ᾽ οὐκ ἐπ᾽ ἀνδράσι κ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.76)]: also with simple dative, Λεωφίλῳ πάντα κεῖται [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 69, probably in “Comica Adespota” 1325)]; of things, depend upon, τὸ πανηγυρικὸν ἐν μελέτῃ καὶ τριβῇ κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.93 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus; τὰ.. γυμνάσια ἐν τῇ κινήσει κ. 2nd c.AD: Antyllus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 6.23.1.)]
V.4 in Medicine texts, to be left to settle, of urine, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.26.β.)]
V.4.b φάρυγξ οὐ φλεγμαίνουσα, κειμένη δέ[Refs (, i.e. not swollen, [prev. work] 2.2.24.)]
V.5 Grammars, of words and phrases, to be found, occur, παρὰ τῷ ποιητῃ [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 7.3.6, compare 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 2.58b; κεῖται ἐν τῷ Περὶ Πλούτου 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ οἰκονομίας” p.39 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]; ποῦ κεῖτα; [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 4.165d)], compare Κειτούκειτο; κ. ἀντί τινος to be used instead of.., [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.6.7)]; τὸ κείμενον the received text, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia vulgar form 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.48.)]