katakeimai · lie

What it means

katakeimai (κατάκειμαι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “lie”.

Be lying down.

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 be laid up, like a sick person in bed.
2. To be at the table to eat.

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

How it is translated

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

• lying ×6
• reclining at table ×5
• lay ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Mark×4
• Luke×3
• John×2
• Acts×2
• 1 Corinthians×1

• Mark 1:30

  Now Simon’s mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever, and at once they tell him about her.

• Mark 2:4

  And when they could not bring him to him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above where he was; and having dug through, they let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.

• Mark 2:15

  And it happens that he is reclining at table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many, and they were following him.

• Mark 14:3

  And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard, very costly; breaking the jar, she poured it over his head.

• Luke 5:25

  And immediately he got up before them, picked up what he had been lying on, and went away to his home, glorifying God.

• Luke 5:29

  And Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house; and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining at table with them.

• Luke 7:37

  And look, a woman who was a sinner in the town —and when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume,

• John 5:3

  In these lay a multitude of the sick: blind, lame, withered.

• John 5:6

  When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been in that condition a long time, he says to him, “Do you want to become well?”

• Acts 9:33

  And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, lying on a mat for eight years, who was paralyzed.

• Acts 28:8

  And it happened that the father of Publius was lying in bed, afflicted with fevers and dysentery; Paul went in to him and, praying, laid his hands on him and healed him.

• 1 Corinthians 8:10

  For if anyone sees you, the one who has knowledge, reclining at table in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, since he is weak, be built up to eat food sacrificed to idols?