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κλισία

klisía · G2828 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. a group eating together

    A group of persons engaged in eating together

    Examples

    Luke 9:14 (For there were about five thousand men.) But He said to His disciples, “Have them recline to eat in groups of about fifty each.”

How it’s used

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Semantic domains 1 entry
A group eating together11.5
κλισία names a company of people reclining together for a meal. Luke 9:14 recounts Jesus instructing His disciples before the feeding of the five thousand, “Have them recline to eat in groups of about fifty each,” the κλισίαι being these organized companies seated together for the meal.
Word family 11 words

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

κλίνω klínō · G2827 · to bow down (the head), to incline, to cause to run away · 7×κλίνη klínē · G2825 · bed, couch, cot · 9×ἀνακλίνω anaklínō · G347 · to lay down, to lay, to cause to recline to eat · 6×κατακλίνω kataklínō · G2625 · to cause to recline to eat, to have someone sit down to eat, to recline · 5×ἐκκλίνω ekklínō · G1578 · to shun, to avoid, to keep away from · 3×κλίμα klíma · G2824 · region, territory, land · 3×κλινίδιον klinídion · G2826 · cot, pallet, stretcher · 2×ἀκλινής aklinḗs · G186 · without wavering, firmly · 1×κλισίαklisía · G2828πρόσκλισις prósklisis · G4346 · prejudice, partiality · 1×

Also from the root κλίνω

πρωτοκλισία prōtoklisía · G4411 · place of honor, seat of honor, best seat · 5×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κλισίας, ἡ (κλίνω; from Homer down; properly, a place for lying down or reclining; hence,…
κλισίας, ἡ (κλίνω; from Homer down; properly, a place for lying down or reclining; hence,
1. a hut, erected to pass the night in.
2. a tent.
3. anything to recline on; a chair in which to lean back the head, reclining-chair.
4. a company reclining; a row or party of persons reclining at meal: so in plural, Lk 9:14, on which cf. Winers Grammar, 229 (214); likewise in Josephus, Antiquities 12, 2, 12; Plutarch Sert. 26.

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

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General1 occurrence

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

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