κατακλίνω
to recline
‘to recline’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2625 appears — 5 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 5 verses
- Luke 7:36 κατεκλίθη aor pass ind 3sg One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table.
- Luke 9:14 κατακλίνατε aor act impv 2pl For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each."
- Luke 9:15 κατέκλιναν aor act ind 3pl They did so, and made them all sit down.
- Luke 14:8 κατακλιθῇς aor pass subj 2sg "When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don't sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,
- Luke 24:30 κατακλιθῆναι aor pass inf It happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
κατακλινω — transliterated kataklínō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to recline.” A scarce word — 5 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in Luke (100% of all occurrences). Debuting at Luke 7:36, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2625 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 5 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Gospels 5 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Down 1×, Make 1×, Sat at meat 1×
- American Standard Version: Down 1×, Feast 1×, Make 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Have them sit down 1×, Reclined at the table 1×, Sit 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Recline to eat 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2625 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2625 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2625 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2625 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- in the NT in reference to eating, to make to recline
- to recline (at a table)
Word origin
Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G2625 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κατέκλιναν katéklinan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Luke 9:15 | 1 |
| κατακλίνατε kataklínate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Luke 9:14 | 1 |
| κατακλιθῆναι kataklithē̂nai | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive | Luke 24:30 | 1 |
| κατακλιθῇς kataklithē̂s | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular | Luke 14:8 | 1 |
| κατεκλίθη kateklíthē | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 7:36 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2625, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- καθα kathá G2505 according as
- καθαιρεω kathairéō G2507 to tear down
- καθαπτω katháptō G2510 to fasten down
- καθεδρα kathédra G2515 seat
- καθεζομαι kathézomai G2516 to sit down
- καθεξης kathexēs G2517 in order
- καθευδω katheúdō G2518 to fall asleep
- καθηγητης kathēgētḗs G2519 guide
- καθηκω kathḗkō G2520 to come down
- καθημαι káthēmai G2521 to sit down
- καθημερινος kathēmerinós G2522 daily
- καθιημι kathíēmi G2524 to send down
- καθιστημι kathístēmi G2525 to place
- καθο kathó G2526 according to what
- καθολου kathólou G2527 wholly
- καθοπλιζω kathoplízō G2528 to arm
- καθοραω kathoráō G2529 to see clearly
- καθοτι kathóti G2530 according to what
- καθως kathṓs G2531 according as
- καμμυω kammýō G2576 to close eyes
- καταβαινω katabaínō G2597 to descend
- καταβαλλω katabállō G2598 to cast down
- καταβαρεω katabaréō G2599 to weigh down
- καταβιβαζω katabibázō G2601 to bring down
+103 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 129 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κατακλινω appears 6 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5 verses in 5 books.
- 6
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 5
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 21:18 κατακλίνω
- Numbers 24:9 κατακλίνω
- Judges 5:27 κατακλίνω
- 1 Samuel 16:11 κατακλίνω
- Daniel 2:29 κατακλίνω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2625) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 21:18 κατακλίνω "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;
- Numbers 24:9 κατακλίνω He couched, he lay down as a lion, As a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be everyone who blesses you, Cursed be everyone who curses you.
- Judges 5:27 κατακλίνω At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; At her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
- 1 Samuel 16:11 κατακλίνω Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? He said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he is keeping the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him; for we will not sit down until he come here.
- Daniel 2:29 κατακλίνω as for you, O king, your thoughts came [into your mind] on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what shall happen.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2625) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
