Katakeimai means “lie” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2621 — chocah (“Hosah”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2621 κατάκειμαι (katakeimai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. katakeimai (kat-ak'-ei-mai) v. 1. to lie down 2. (by implication) be sick It has 15 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include sick, down, meat, lie, and sit. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
katakeimai (kat-ak'-ei-mai) v. 1. to lie down 2. (by implication) be sick 3. (specially) to recline at a meal [from G2596 and G2749] KJV: keep, lie, sit at meat (down) Root(s): G2596, G2749
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to recline
Usage: κατά-κειμαι [in LXX: Pro.6:9 23:34 (שָׁכַב), Jdth.13:15, Wis.17:7 * ;] __1. to lie down. __2. to lie sick: Mrk.1:30 2:4, Jhn.5:6, Act.28:8; before ἐπί with genitive, Act.9:33; id. with accusative, Luk.5:25; ἐν, Jhn.5:3. __3. to recline at meals (cf. ἀνάιειμαι): Mrk.14:3, Luk.5:29; before ἐν, Mrk.2:15, Luk.7:37, 1Co.8:10.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render katakeimai, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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Strong's G2621 (κατάκειμαι) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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11 indexed usages in New Testament.
But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And when wilt thou awake out of sleep?
And thou shalt lie as in the midst of the sea, And as a pilot in a great storm.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
So she took the head out of the bag, and showed it, and said unto them, Behold the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Assyria, and behold the canopy, wherein he did lie in his drunkenness; and the Lord hath smitten him by the hand of a woman.
As for the illusions of art magic, they were put down, And their vaunting in wisdom was reproved with disgrace.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2621.
And when wilt thou awake out of sleep?
And thou shalt lie as in the midst of the sea, And as a pilot in a great storm.
But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
So she took the head out of the bag, and showed it, and said unto them, Behold the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Assyria, and behold the canopy, wherein he did lie in his drunkenness; and the Lord hath smitten him by the hand of a woman.
As for the illusions of art magic, they were put down, And their vaunting in wisdom was reproved with disgrace.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2621, grouped by book.
Katakeimai (Strong's G2621) is a Greek word most simply glossed "lie". katakeimai (kat-ak'-ei-mai) v. 1. to lie down 2. (by implication) be sick
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's G2621 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2621 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sick, down, meat, lie, and sit. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2621, with linked reader references where each row is available.