Katákeimai — G2621

Definition

verb

to lie down, i.e. (by implication) be sick; specially, to recline at a meal

1. of the sick
2. 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

Usually translated as

sit at meat, lie, keep

Origin

from G2596 and G2749

• katá (G2596)
• keîmai (G2749)

Occurrences

Katákeimai occurs 11 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Mark (4), Luke (2), John (2), Acts (2), 1 Corinthians (1)

• Mark 1:30 — But Simon’s wife’s mother lay (κατέκειτο) sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
• 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 (κατέκειτο).
• Mark 2:15 — And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat (κατακεῖσθαι) in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
• Mark 14:3 — And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat (κατακειμένου), 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.
• Luke 5:25 — And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay (κατέκειτο), and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
• 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 (κατακείμενοι) with them.
• John 5:3 — In these lay (κατέκειτο) a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
• John 5:6 — When Jesus saw him lie (κατακείμενον), and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
• Acts 9:33 — And there he found a certain man named Æneas, which had kept his bed (κατακείμενον) eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
• Acts 28:8 — And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay (κατακεῖσθαι) 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.
• 1 Corinthians 8:10 — For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat (κατακείμενον) 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;