Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2639: καταλέγωκαταλέγω: present passive imperative καταλεγέσθω; 1. properly, to lay down; middle to lie down (Homer). 2. to narrate at length, recount, set forth (from Homer on). 3. to set down in a list or register, to enroll (especially soldiers; see Passow, under the word, 5; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 2 (yet the latter connect this use with the meaning of to choose))): of those widows who held a prominent place in the church and exercised a certain superintendence over the rest of the women, and had charge of the widows and orphans supported at public expense, 1 Timothy 5:9 (Winer's Grammar, 590 (549)); cf. DeWette (or Ellicott) at the passage. |