anapiptō · recline

What it means

anapiptō (ἀναπίπτω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “recline”.

Sit down to eat.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To settle in to eat, at table or on the ground.
2. To rest on another's chest.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• reclined at table ×3
• sit down ×3
• recline ×2
• sat down ×2
• leaned back ×1
• leaning back ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×2
• Luke×4
• John×5

• Matthew 15:35

  And directing the crowd to sit down on the ground,

• Mark 6:40

  And they sat down in rows, by hundreds and by fifties.

• Mark 8:6

  And he directs the crowd to sit down on the ground; and taking the seven loaves and giving thanks, he broke them and kept giving them to his disciples to set before the people; and they set them before the crowd.

• Luke 11:37

  Now as he was speaking, a Pharisee asks him to dine with him; so he went in and reclined at table.

• Luke 14:10

  But when you are invited, go and recline in the last place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will have honor before all those reclining at table with you.

• Luke 17:7

  “Which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, is there who will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’?

• Luke 22:14

  And when the hour came, he reclined at table, and the apostles with him.

• John 6:10

  Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.

• John 13:12

  So when he had washed their feet and taken his outer garments and reclined at table again, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you?

• John 13:25

  So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus’ chest, says to him, “Lord, who is it?”

• John 21:20

  Peter, turning around, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved following, the one who had also leaned back at the supper against his chest and said, “Lord, who is the one who is handing you over?”

And 1 more times.