Words the Bible translates as recline
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- anapiptōἀναπίπτωto recline at a meal: to settle back into the propped-on-one-elbow posture people took at a formal ancient banquet
- anakeimaiἀνάκειμαιto recline at a table to dine; more basically, to lie stretched out
- katakeimaiκατάκειμαιto be lying down: stretched out and staying there, either laid up in bed because of illness or lying on a couch at a meal.
- anaklinōἀνακλίνωto reclinenot studied yet
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