STRONGS G2639:
καταλέγω: 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.
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