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ἀνακεῖμαι

anakeîmai · G345 · Greek · 14 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. 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

    Matthew 22:11 “But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes,

    Matthew 26:7 a woman came to Him with an alabaster vial of very expensive perfume, and she poured it on His head as He was reclining at the table.

    Matthew 26:20 Now when evening came, Jesus was reclining at the table with the twelve.

  2. to eat a meal

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

    Examples

    Matthew 9:10 Then it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and began dining with Jesus and His disciples.

    Mark 6:26 And although the king was very sorry, because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he was unwilling to refuse her.

    Mark 16:14 Later He appeared to the eleven disciples themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reprimanded them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen from the dead.

  3. to dine in the place of honor

    (An idiom, literally: to recline on the bosom) To take the place of honor at a meal

    Examples

    John 13:23 Lying back on Jesus’ chest was one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.

How it’s used In 7 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

13 occurrences in 4 groups

To or for whomIndirect object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

It is given or told toIndirect object

1 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

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 Matthew 9:10, “as Jesus was reclining at the table (anakeiménou) in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and began dining with Jesus and His disciples,” describing the ordinary posture of dining.
To dine in the place of honor17.25
In John 13:23, at the Last Supper, “lying back on Jesus' chest (anakeímenos) was one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved,” describing the position of closest honor at Jesus' side.
To eat a meal23.21
In John 6:11, after giving thanks over the loaves, “He distributed them to those who were reclining (anakeiménois); likewise also of the fish, as much as they wanted,” describing the crowd's actual eating of the meal Jesus provided.
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×ἀνακεῖμαιanakeîmai · G345κατάκειμαι katákeimai · G2621 · to lie, lying down, to recline · 12×ἀντίκειμαι 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 ἀνέκειτο); deponent middle to be laid up, laid: Mk 5:40 R L…
(imperfect 3 person singular ἀνέκειτο); deponent middle to be laid up, laid: Mk 5:40 R L brackets (cf. English to lay out). In later Greek to lie at table (on thelectustricliniaris (cf. B. D. under the word ); the earlier Greeks used κεῖσθαι, κατακεῖσθαι, cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 216f; Fritzsche (or Wetstein (1752)) on Mt 9:10): Mt 9:10; Mt 22:10; Mt 26:7, Mt 26:20; Mark ( T Tr WH); Mk 14:18; ; Lk 7:37 (L T Tr WH κατάκειται); ; Jn 12:2 (Rec. συνανάκειμαι); Jn 13:23, Jn 13:28. Generally, to eat together, to dine: Jn 6:11. (Cf. ἀναπίπτω, at the end. Compare: συνανάκειμαι.)

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Recline [to eat]11 occurrencesEat, 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

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