Kataklino means “recline down” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2625 — chacil (“caterpillar”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2625 κατακλίνω (kataklino) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kataklino (kat-ak-lee'-no) v. 1. to recline down 2. (specially) to take a place at table It has 9 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include down and meat. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
kataklino (kat-ak-lee'-no) v. 1. to recline down 2. (specially) to take a place at table [from G2596 and G2827] KJV: (make) sit down (at meat) Root(s): G2596, G2827
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2625. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to sit
Usage: κατα-κλίνω [in LXX: Exo.21:18 (נָפַל), Num.24:9, Jdg.5:27, 1Ki.16:11 (כָּרַע), Jdth.12:15, 3Ma.1:3 * ;] to lay down, make to lie down, esp. for meals: with accusative of person(s), Luk.9:14-15; mid., to recline at meals: Luk.7:36 24:30; before εἰς, Luk.14:8 (cf. Jth, Lc.).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kataklino, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2625 (κατακλίνω) appears 7 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
4 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And if two men revile each other and smite the one the other with a stone or his fist, and he die not, but be laid upon his bed;
He lay down, he rested as a lion, and as a young lion; Who shall stir him up? They that bless thee are blessed, And they that curse thee are cursed.
He rolled down between her feet; He fell and lay between her feet; He bowed and fell: Where he bowed, there he fell dead.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
So she arose, and decked herself with her apparel and all her woman’s attire, and her maid went and laid soft skins on the ground for her over against Holofernes, which she had received of Bagoas for her daily use, that she might sit and eat upon them.
But Dositheus, called the son of Drimylus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It befell this man to receive the fate which was meant for the other.
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2625.
And if two men revile each other and smite the one the other with a stone or his fist, and he die not, but be laid upon his bed;
He lay down, he rested as a lion, and as a young lion; Who shall stir him up? They that bless thee are blessed, And they that curse thee are cursed.
He rolled down between her feet; He fell and lay between her feet; He bowed and fell: Where he bowed, there he fell dead.
And Samuel said to Jesse, Hast thou no more sons? And Jesse said, There is yet a little one; behold, he tends the flock. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and fetch him, for we may not sit down till he comes.
For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
So she arose, and decked herself with her apparel and all her woman’s attire, and her maid went and laid soft skins on the ground for her over against Holofernes, which she had received of Bagoas for her daily use, that she might sit and eat upon them.
But Dositheus, called the son of Drimylus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It befell this man to receive the fate which was meant for the other.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2625, grouped by book.
Kataklino (Strong's G2625) is a Greek word most simply glossed "recline down". kataklino (kat-ak-lee'-no) v. 1. to recline down 2. (specially) to take a place at table
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's G2625 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2625 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 down and meat. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2625, with linked reader references where each row is available.