ἀνακεῖμαι
to dine
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Voice
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 4 times (29%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 3 times (21%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (14%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (14%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 2 times (14%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (7%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 14 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G345 appears — 13 distinct verses across 4 books. 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.
Matthew 5 verses
- Matthew 9:10 ἀνακειμένου pres mid/pass.dep ptcp gen sg masc It happened as he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
- Matthew 22:10 ἀνακειμένων pres mid/pass.dep ptcp gen pl masc Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.
- Matthew 22:11 ἀνακειμένους pres mid/pass.dep ptcp acc pl masc But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn't have on wedding clothing,
- Matthew 26:7 ἀνακειμένου pres mid/pass.dep ptcp gen sg masc a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.
- Matthew 26:20 ἀνέκειτο impf mid/pass.dep ind 3sg Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.
Mark 3 verses
- Mark 6:26 ἀνακειμένους pres mid/pass.dep ptcp acc pl masc The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her.
- Mark 14:18 ἀνακειμένων pres mid/pass.dep ptcp gen pl masc As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, "Most assuredly I tell you, one of you will betray me -- he who eats with me."
- Mark 16:14 ἀνακειμένοις pres mid/pass.dep ptcp dat pl masc Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn't believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
Luke 1 verse
John 4 verses
- John 6:11 ἀνακειμένοις pres mid/pass.dep ptcp dat pl masc Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.
- John 12:2 ἀνακειμένων pres mid/pass.dep ptcp gen pl masc So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
- John 13:23 ἀνακείμενος pres mid/pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus' breast.
- John 13:28 ἀνακειμένων pres mid/pass.dep ptcp gen pl masc Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him.
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.
At its core, ανακειμαι (anakeîmai) means “to dine.” First canonically at Matthew 9:10, it enters the text early. It appears 13 verses across 4 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Matthew (38%), then John and Mark. It shares a root with ανα, αναβαινω and αναβαλλομαι. Dig into 13-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G345 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 →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #814
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 814 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
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 13 distinct verses.
- Gospels 13 verses · 100%
- Johannine 4 verses · 31%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 8%
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: Guests 2×, He that sitteth at meat 2×, Sat at meat 2×
- American Standard Version: Guests 2×, Sat at meat 2×, Sitteth at meat 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Guests 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Reclining to eat 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G345 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G345 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G345 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G345 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 1 sense 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.
- to lie at a table, eat together, dine
Word origin
Derived from ανα (aná) (G303) — among.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G345 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀνακειμένων anakeiménōn | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 22:10 | 4 |
| ἀνακείμενος anakeímenos | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 22:27 | 3 |
| ἀνακειμένοις anakeiménois | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Mark 16:14 | 2 |
| ἀνακειμένου anakeiménou | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 9:10 | 2 |
| ἀνακειμένους anakeiménous | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 22:11 | 2 |
| ἀνέκειτο anékeito | Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 26:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G345, 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
- αναβαινω anabaínō G305 to ascend
- αναβαλλομαι anabállomai G306 to delay
- αναβιβαζω anabibázō G307 to draw up
- αναβλεπω anablépō G308 to look up
- αναβοαω anaboáō G310 to cry out
- αναγγελλω anangéllō G312 to announce
- αναγενναω anagennáō G313 to be born again
- αναγινωσκω anaginṓskō G314 to recognize
- αναγκη anánkē G318 necessity
- αναγνωριζομαι anagnōrízomai G319 to recognize
- αναγω anágō G321 to lead up
- αναδεικνυμι anadeíknymi G322 to proclaim
- αναδεχομαι anadéchomai G324 to take up
- αναδιδωμι anadídōmi G325 to give forth
- αναζαω anazáō G326 to live again
- αναζητεω anazētéō G327 to search out
- αναζωννυμι anazṓnnymi G328 to gird up
- αναζωπυρεω anazōpyréō G329 to inflame
- αναθαλλω anathállō G330 to sprout up
- αναθεωρεω anatheōréō G333 to observe
- αναιρεω anairéō G337 to take away
- ανακαθιζω anakathízō G339 to sit up
- ανακαινιζω anakainízō G340 to renew
- ανακαινοω anakainóō G341 to make new
+51 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 77 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
