Katakeimai κατάκειμαι

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Katakeimai
κατάκειμαι
Transliterationkatakeimai
Strong's numberG2621
LanguageGreek
Part of speechverb
Glossto recline
Occurrences12 in 12 verses
Most frequent inMark (4)

Katakeimai (Greek κατάκειμαι, Strong's G2621) is a Greek verb meaning “to recline”. It occurs 12 times in 12 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

κατά-κειμαι
[in LXX: Pro.6:9 23:34 (שָׁכַב), Jdth.13:15, Wis.17:7 * ;]
1. to lie down.
2. to lie sick: Mrk.1:30 2:4, Jhn.5:6, Act.28:8; before ἐπί with genitive, Act.9:33; id. with accusative, Luk.5:25; ἐν, Jhn.5:3.
3. to recline at meals (cf. ἀνάιειμαι): Mrk.14:3, Luk.5:29; before ἐν, Mrk.2:15, Luk.7:37, 1Co.8:10.†
(AS)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVlay (5), meat (3), down (1), lie (1), his (1)
BSBwas dining (2), eating (2), was sick in bed (1), reclining at the table (1), he had been lying (1), lay (1), lying (1), bedridden (1), sick in bed (1)

Verses

Every verse with Katakeimai, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

1 Corinthians

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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