BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
GREEK · G2621
katakeimai — to recline
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)
12 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G2625
kataklinō — to sit
κατα-κλίνω [in LXX: Exo.21:18 (נָפַל), Num.24:9, Jdg.5:27, 1Ki.16:11 (כָּרַע), Jdth.12:15, 3Ma.1:3 * ;] to lay down, make to lie down, esp. for meals: with accusative of person(s), Luk.9:14-15; mid., to recline at meals: Luk.7:36 24:30; before εἰς, Luk.14:8 (cf. Jth, Lc.).† (AS)
5 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G20895
paraklinō — to avoid
1. to bend or turn aside , παρακλίνας κεφαλήν (Odyssey by Homer); π. τὴν θύραν, τὴν πύλην to set it ajar , (Herdotus Historicus) 2. metaphorically, ἄλλῃ παρκλίνουσι δίκας they turn justice from her path , (Hesiod) 3. to lay beside another:—;Pass. to lie down beside , at meals, Lat. accumbere, τινι (Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus) 4. intransitive to turn aside , (Iliad by Homer); παρακλίνασα having swerved from the course , (Aeschulus Tragicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8172
lebēs — a kettle
1. a kettle or caldron of copper, (Homer), etc. 2. a basin in which the purifying water χέρνιψ); was handed to the guests before meals, (Odyssey by Homer); also a pan for washing the feet, (Odyssey by Homer): a bath , (Aeschulus Tragicus) 3. a cymbal , (Herdotus Historicus) 4. a cinerary urn , (Aeschulus Tragicus):—;generally, a casket , (Sophocles Tragicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Are at the present day “eaten from a round table little higher than a stool, guests sitting cross-legged on mats or small carpets in a circle, and dipping their fingers into one large dish heaped with a mixture of boiled rice and other grain and meat. But in the time of our Lord, and perhaps even from the days of Amos (6:4, 7), the foreign custom had been largely introduced of having broad couches, forming three sides of a small square, the guests reclining at ease on their elbows during meals, with their faces to the space within, up and down which servants passed offering various dishes, or in the absence of servants, helping themselves from dishes laid on a table set between the couches.” Geikie’s Life of Christ. (Comp. Luke 7:36-50.) (See ABRAHAM’S BOSOM; BANQUET; FEAST.)
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
