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Strong G2621κατάκειμαι

to recline

Transliteration
katakeimai
Pronunciation
kat-ak'-i-mahee
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G2596 and G2749; to lie down that is (by implication) be sick; specifically to recline at a meal: - keep lie sit at meat (down).

Detailed 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.†
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In the Bible

Strong G2621 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • lie6
  • sit4
  • keep1

First verses

  1. Mark 1:30
    But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
  2. Mark 2:4
    And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
  3. Mark 2:15
    And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
  4. Mark 14:3
    And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
  5. Luke 5:25
    And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
  6. Luke 5:29
    And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
  7. John 5:3
    In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
  8. John 5:6
    When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
  9. Acts 9:33
    And there he found a certain man named Eneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
  10. Acts 28:8
    And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
  11. 1 Corinthians 8:10
    For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
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Detailed Greek dictionary
κατάκειμαι,
Epic dialect 3rd.pers. plural κατακείαται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.527)]: Ionic dialect pluperfect κατεκέατο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.229)]; subjunctive -κέωμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 213b:)] —passive, only in present and imperfect with future middle -κείσομαι:—lie down, μῆλα τὰ δὴ κατάκειτ᾽ ἐσφαγμένα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.532)]; ἐπὶ πλευρὰς κ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.10)]; νέκυς κ. [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 11.19; ἐφ᾽ ἁρμαμαξῶν μαλθακῶς κατακείμενοι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 70.)]
2 lie hid, ἐν λόχμῃ.. κατέκειτο μέγας σῦς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.439; θάμνῳ ὑπ᾽ ἀμφικόμῳ κατακείμενος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.677.)]
3 lie stored up, δοιοὶ γάρ τε πίθοι κατακείαται ἐν Διὸς οὔδει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.527; τό γ ἐν οἴκῳ κατακείμενον ἀνέρα κήδει 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 364: _metaphorically_, ἄλγεα.. ἐν θυμῷ κ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.523.)]
3.b to be deposited, of deeds in a registry, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 1040.32 (3rd c.AD), etc.)]
4 lie sick, keep one's bed, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.229, NT.Mark.1.30, etc.)]; lie in bed, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 313; ἐφ᾽ ὃ κατέκειτο NT.Luke.5.25.)]
5 lodge, reside, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.26.έ, 3.1.γ, +others)]
6 to be idle, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.14)]; of things, lie neglected, καθεύδειν ἐᾶν ἐν τῇ γῇ κατακείμενα τὰ τείχη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 778d.)]
7 recline at meals, πῖνε, κατάκεισο [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 985, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.121, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 185d, NT.Mark.14.3.)]
8 of land, lie sloping to the sea, πρῶνες ἔξοχοι -κεινται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.52.)]
9 ἀρετᾷ κατάκειται πᾶσαν ὀργάν is expended in every impulse on.., [Refs ([prev. author] “I.” 1.41.)]