To sit
κατακλίνωStrong’s G2625kataklinō
Appears in 5 verses of the New Testament
In short
Kataklinō is the Greek word usually translated “was sat”, “do make sit down” and “sat”. It appears in 5 verses of the New Testament.
“And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat.”
Meaning
Usually translated “was sat”, “do make sit down” and “sat”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- he was sat 1
- do make sit down 1
- he sat 1
- may recline 1
- reclining 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Luke 9:14For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
- Luke 9:15And they did so, and made them all sit down.
- Luke 14:8When 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;
- Luke 24:30And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
Greek dictionary
κατακλίνω kataklinō · to sit
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)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIT, verb intransitive
preterit tense sat; old participle passive sitten [Latin sedeo.]
- To rest upon the buttocks, as animals; as, to sit on a sofa or on the ground.
- To perch; to rest on the feet; as fowls.
- To occupy a seat or place in an official capacity. Matthew 23:2“The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat” Matthew 23:2
- To be in a state of rest or idleness. Numbers 32:6“Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?” Numbers 32:6
All definitions and other forms of “sit”
- To rest, lie or bear on, as a weight or burned; as, grief sits heavy on his heart.
- To settle; to rest; to abide.
- To incubate; to cover and warm eggs for hatching; as a fowl.“As the partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not-” Jeremiah 17:11
- To be adjusted; to be, with respect to fitness or unfitness; as, a coat sits well or ill.
- To be placed in order to be painted; as, to sit for one's picture.
- To be in any situation or condition.
- To hold a session; to be officially engaged in public business; as judges, legislators or officers of any kind.
- To exercise authority; as, to sit in judgment.
- To be in any assembly or council as a member; to have a seat.
- To be in a local position.
- to place one's self on a chair or other seat; as, to sit down at a meal.
- To begin a siege.
- To settle; to fix a permanent abode.
- To rest; to cease as satisfied.
- To rise or be raised from a recumbent posture.“He that was dead sat up, and began to speak” Luke 7:15
- Not to go to bed; as, to sit up late at night; also, to watch; as, to sit up with a sick person.
SIT, verb transitive
- To keep the seat upon.
- To sit me down, To sit him down, to sit them down, equivalent to I seated myself, _ c. are familiar phrases used by good writers, though deviation from strict propriety.
- 'The court was sat, ' an expression of Addison, is a gross impropriety.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.