Word Summary
anakeimai: to be laid up, to recline
Original Word: ἀνάκειμαιTransliteration: anakeimai
Phonetic Spelling: (an-ak-i'-mahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be laid up, to recline
Meaning: to be laid up, to recline
Strong's Concordance
lean or recline at the table.
From ana and keimai; to recline (as a corpse or at a meal) -- guest, lean, lie, sit (down, at meat), at the table.
see GREEK ana
see GREEK keimai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 345: ἀνάκειμαιἀνάκειμαι; (imperfect 3 person singular
ἀνέκειτο); deponent middle
to be laid up, laid:
Mark 5:40 R L brackets (cf. English
to lay out). In later Greek
to lie at table (on the
lectustricliniaris (cf.
B. D. under the word
); the earlier Greeks used κεῖσθαι, κατακεῖσθαι, cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 216f; Fritzsche (or Wetstein (1752)) on Matthew 9:10): Matthew 9:10; Matthew 22:10; Matthew 26:7, 20; Mark ( T Tr WH); ; Luke 7:37 (L T Tr WH κατάκειται); ; John 12:2 (Rec. συνανάκειμαι); John 13:23, 28. Generally, to eat together, to dine: John 6:11. (Cf. ἀναπίπτω, at the end. Compare: συνανάκειμαι.)