κατάκειμαι
katakeimai
“to recline”
Definition
to lie down, i.e. (by implication) be sick; specially, to recline at a meal
from G2596 (κατά) and G2749 (κεῖμαι);
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Occurrences
κατάκειμαι appears 12 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?
There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
When Jesus saw him lying there and realized that he had spent a long time in this condition, He asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
Then Levi hosted a great banquet for Jesus at his house. A large crowd of tax collectors was there, along with others who were eating with them.
Simon’s mother-in-law was sick in bed with a fever, and they promptly told Jesus about her.
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