To recline

Usually translated “lying”, “reclining” and “was laying sick”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• lying 3
• reclining 2
• was laying sick 1
• was lying 1
• when is reclining 1
• he was lying 1
• reclines back 1
• were lying 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Mark 4
• Luke 3
• John 2
• Acts 2
• 1 Corinthians 1

5 books in all.

• To recline (anapiptō)
• To recline (anakeimai)
• To recline (anaklinō)
• To sit (kataklinō)

• Mark 2:4And 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.
• Mark 2:15And 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.
• Mark 14:3And 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.
• Luke 5:25And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
• Luke 5:29And 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.
• Luke 7:37And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “recline” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.