Apokeimai means “be appointed” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H606 — enash (“man”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G606 ἀπόκειμαι (apokeimai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. apokeimai (ap-ok'-ei-mai) v. 1. to be reserved 2. (figuratively) to await It has 8 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include laid and appointed. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
apokeimai (ap-ok'-ei-mai) v. 1. to be reserved 2. (figuratively) to await [from G575 and G2749] KJV: be appointed, (be) laid up Root(s): G575, G2749
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G606. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to lay up
Usage: ἀπό-κειμαι [in LXX: Gen.49:10 (שִׁילֹה), Job.38:23 (חָשַׂךְ), 2Ma.12:45, 4Ma.8:11 * ;] to be laid up, in store, laid away: Luk.19:20. Metaphorical, C. dative of person(s), to be reserved (Dem., Plat.; and see MM, see word): Col.1:5, 2Ti.4:8, Heb.9:27.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render apokeimai, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G606 (ἀπόκειμαι) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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4 indexed usages in New Testament.
And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
A ruler shall not fail from Judah, Nor a prince from his loins, Until there come the things stored up for him; And he is the expectation of nations.
And is there a store of them, For thee against the time of thine enemies, For the day of wars and battle?
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And also in that he perceived that there was great favor laid up for those that died godly, it was a holy and good thought. Whereupon he made a reconciliation for the dead, that they might be delivered from sin.
Thus speaking, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward, that very fear might prevail upon them to eat unclean meat.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G606.
A ruler shall not fail from Judah, Nor a prince from his loins, Until there come the things stored up for him; And he is the expectation of nations.
And is there a store of them, For thee against the time of thine enemies, For the day of wars and battle?
And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
And also in that he perceived that there was great favor laid up for those that died godly, it was a holy and good thought. Whereupon he made a reconciliation for the dead, that they might be delivered from sin.
Thus speaking, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward, that very fear might prevail upon them to eat unclean meat.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G606, grouped by book.
Apokeimai (Strong's G606) is a Greek word most simply glossed "be appointed". apokeimai (ap-ok'-ei-mai) v. 1. to be reserved 2. (figuratively) to await
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G606 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G606 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as laid and appointed. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G606, with linked reader references where each row is available.