Quick Definition
an inn, lodging-place
Strong's Definition
properly, a dissolution (breaking up of a journey), i.e. (by implication) a lodging-place
Derivation: from G2647 (καταλύω);
KJV Usage: guestchamber, inn
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κατάλυμα, καταλυματος, τό (from καταλύω, c.; which see), an inn, lodging-place: Luk_2:7 (for ξΘμεο, Exo_4:24); an eating-room, dining-room (A. V. guest-chamber): Mar_14:14; Luk_22:11; in the same sense for μΔωΐΡλΘΜδ, 1Sa_9:22. (Polybius 2, 36, 1 (plural); 32, 19, 2; Diodorus 14, 93, 5; (others; cf. Winer's Grammar, 25, 93 (89)).)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κατάλυμα katalyma 3x
lodging, inn, Luk_2:7 ;
a guest-chamber, Mar_14:14 ; Luk_22:11
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† κατά -λυμα , -τος , τό
( < καταλύω ),
[in LXX : Exo_4:24 ( H4411 ), 1Sa_9:22 ( H3957 ), etc.;]
1. = cl . καταγώγιον ( cf. πανδοχεῖον ), an inn, lodgingplace: Luk_2:7 (so Ex, l.c ., and MGr .).
2. a guest-room (1Sam, l.c .): Mar_14:14 , Luk_22:11 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κατάλυμα [page 329]
For this noun (the Hellenistic equivalent of καταγωγεῖον ), as in Luk_2:7 (cf. Exo_4:24 ), see P Par 34 .5 (ii/B.C.) εἰς τὸ κατάλυμα τῶν Ἀρσινοϊτῶν , where the reference is to the lodging-place provided for the inhabitants of Arsinoλ in the Serapeum. Elsewhere in Biblical Greek, e.g. 1Ki_1:13 , Mar_14:14 , it has rather the sense of guest-room. Κατάλυσις is similarly used in P Petr II. 14(1 b ) .2 τὴν βασιλεικὴν κατάλυσιν , where Mahaffy notes that the Royal quarters served PS an inn for ihe convenience of officials who visited the place. In P Magd 8 .10 (B.C. 218) we have κατ ]άλυσιν τοῦ βίου , the dissolution of life. MGr κατάλυμα , lodging.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
κατάλυμα κατάλυ^μα, ατος, τό, [Etym: καταλύω II] "an inn, lodging", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
κατά-λυμα, -τος, τό
(καταλύω), [in LXX: Exo.4:24 (מָלוֹן), 1Ki.9:22 (לִשְׁכָּה), etc. ;]
__1. = cl. καταγώγιον (cf. πανδοχεῖον), an inn, lodgingplace: Luk.2:7 (so Ex, l.with, and MGr.).
__2. a guest-room (1Sam,l.with): Mrk.14:14, Luk.22:11.†
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