πρωτοκλισία
first seat
‘first seat’ 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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Degree
- Superlative
- Expresses the greatest degree (“greatest,” “most”).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine, Superlative 3 times (60%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine, Superlative 2 times (40%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4411 appears — 5 distinct verses across 3 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 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 3 verses
- Luke 14:7 πρωτοκλισίας n acc pl fem supl He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,
- Luke 14:8 πρωτοκλισίαν n acc sg fem supl "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 20:46 πρωτοκλισίας n acc pl fem supl "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;
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.
The Greek noun πρωτοκλισια centers on the idea of “first seat.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 5 verses. Luke dominates its distribution — 3 of 5 verses. Debuting at Matthew 23:6, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4411 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.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 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 →
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) 3 verses · 60%
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: Chief rooms 2×, Uppermost rooms 2×
- American Standard Version: Chief places 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Places of honor 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: First places 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4411 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4411 across 5 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4411 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4411 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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.
- the first reclining place, the chief place at table
- the relative rank of the several places at table varied among the Persians…
Word origin
Derived from πρωτος (prōtos) (G4413) — first.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4411 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πρωτοκλισίας prōtoklisías | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine, Superlative | Mark 12:39 | 3 |
| πρωτοκλισίαν prōtoklisían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine, Superlative | Matthew 23:6 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4411, 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
- πρωτευω prōteúō G4409 to be first
- πρωτοκαθεδρια prōtokathedría G4410 to sit first
- πρωτον prōton G4412 first
- πρωτοστατης prōtostátēs G4414 front-rank soldier
- πρωτοτοκος prōtótokos G4416 firstborn
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
