Word

κατάκειμαι

katákeimai · G2621 · Greek · 12 occurrences

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Meanings

to lie, lying down

To lie down, often with the implication of some degree of incapacity

Examples
Mark 1:30 Now Simon’s mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever; and they immediately spoke to Jesus about her.
Mark 2:4 And when they were unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and after digging an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralyzed man was lying.
Luke 5:25 And immediately he got up before them, and picked up what he had been lying on, and went home glorifying God.
to recline, to eat, to be at table, to eat, to dine, to sit down to eat

To be in a reclining position as one eats (with the focus either upon the position or the act of eating)

Examples
Mark 2:15 And it happened that He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many of them, and they were following Him.
Mark 14:3 While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the Leper, He was reclining at the table, and a woman came with an alabaster vial of very expensive perfume of pure nard. She broke the vial and poured the perfume over His head.
to eat a meal

To eat a meal, with possible reference to the fact of the people reclining to eat

Examples
Luke 5:29 And Levi gave a big reception for Him in his house; and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and other people who were reclining at the table with them.
Luke 7:37 And there was a woman in the city who was a sinner; and when she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume,
1 Corinthians 8:10 For if someone sees you, the one who has knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will his conscience, if he is weak, not be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

11 occurrences in 9 groups

Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

7 occurrences in 6 groups

ἐνin+ οἰκίαhouse, home, dwelling 3
ἐκfrom+ ἔτοςyear 1
ἐνin+ εἰδωλεῖονtemple of an idol 1
ἐνin+ οὗτοςthis 1
ἐπίon+ κράββατοςcot 1
ἐπίon+ ὅςwho, which, that 1

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ὅπουwhere, wherever, in which 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

κράββατοςcot 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

γίνομαιto become, to happen, to be 2

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 3 groups

εἴδωto know 2
αἴρωto take up, to take away, to carry 1
ἐπιγινώσκωto know, to recognize 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries

To recline, to eat, to be at table, to eat, to dine, to sit down to eat17.23: In Mark 2:15, it is written that “He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and His disciples,” using this word for the posture of reclining at a meal.
To lie, lying down17.27: In Mark 2:4, of the paralyzed man it is written that his friends let down “the pallet on which the paralyzed man was lying,” using this word for the ordinary posture of lying down, apart from a meal setting.
To eat a meal23.21: In 1 Corinthians 8:10, Paul writes of a weaker believer who might see “you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol's temple,” using this word for the specific act of eating a meal while reclining at table.

Word family 17 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

κεῖμαι keîmai · G2749 · to lie, to recline, to be · 24×κώμη kṓmē · G2968 · village, the people there, the people of a village · 27×κοιμάω koimáō · G2837 · to sleep, to be asleep, sleep · 18×ἀνακεῖμαι anakeîmai · G345 · to recline, to eat, to be at table · 14×κατάκειμαιkatákeimai · G2621ἀντίκειμαι antíkeimai · G480 · to oppose, to be hostile toward, to show hostility · 8×ἐπίκειμαι epíkeimai · G1945 · to be on, to lie on, to press against · 7×συνανάκειμαι synanákeimai · G4873 · to eat together, to associate in a meal · 7×περίκειμαι períkeimai · G4029 · to be around, to surround, to be placed around · 5×πρόκειμαι prókeimai · G4295 · to exist openly, to exist clearly, to exist later · 5×ἀπόκειμαι apókeimai · G606 · to store, to put away in a place, to exist · 4×κοίτη koítē · G2845 · bed, sexual activity, sexual life · 4×κῶμος kōmos · G2970 · orgy, revelling, carousing · 3×παράκειμαι parákeimai · G3873 · to be present, to be here, to be there · 2×κοίμησις koímēsis · G2838 · to sleep, to be asleep, sleep · 1×κοιτών koitṓn · G2846 · bedroom · 1×κωμόπολις kōmópolis · G2969 · town, market town · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon imperfect 3 person singular κατέκειτο; (κεῖμαι, to lie (see κατά, III. 1)); to have lain…

imperfect 3 person singular κατέκειτο; (κεῖμαι, to lie (see κατά, III. 1)); to have lain down i. e. to lie prostrate;
a. of the sick (cf. colloquial, 'down sick') (Herodotus 7, 229; Lucian, Icarom. 31; (Plutarch, vit. Cicero 43, 3)): Mk 1:30; Jn 5:6; Acts 28:8; followed by ἐπί with the dative of the couch or pallet, Mk 2:4 R G L marginal reading; (Acts 9:33 R G); Lk 5:25 R L; ἐπί τιονς, Acts 9:33 (L T Tr WH); ἐπί τί, Lk 5:25 T Tr WH (Buttmann, § 147, 24 note; Winer's Grammar, 408 (381) note); ἐν with the dative of place, Jn 5:3.
b. of those at meals, to recline (Athen. 1, 42, p. 23 c.; Xenophon, an. 6, 1, 4; conv. 1, 14; Plato, conv., p. 177 d.; rep. ii., p. 372 d., etc.; (Diogenes Laërtius 7, 1, 19; see ἀνάκειμαι): absolutely, Mk 14:3; Lk 5:29; followed by ἐν with the dative of place, Mk 2:15; 1 Cor 8:10; Lk 7:37 L T Tr WH.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Recline [to eat]2 occurrences Lie7 occurrences Eat, Drink3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0