Quick Definition
I recline, especially at a dinner-table
Strong's Definition
to recline (as a corpse or at a meal)
Derivation: from G303 (ἀνά) and G2749 (κεῖμαι);
KJV Usage: guest, lean, lie, sit (down, at meat), at the table
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀνάκειμαι; (imperfect 3 person singular ἀνέκειτο); deponent middle to be laid up, laid: Mar_5:40 R L brackets (cf. English to lay out). In later Greek to lie at table (on thelectustricliniaris (cf. B. D. under the word ); the earlier Greeks used κεῖσθαι, κατακεῖσθαι, cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 216f; Fritzsche (or Wetstein (1752)) on Mat_9:10): Mat_9:10; Mat_22:10; Mat_26:7; Mat_26:20; Mark ( T Tr WH); ; Luk_7:37 (L T Tr WH κατάκειται); ; Joh_12:2 (Rec. συνανάκειμαι); Joh_13:23; Joh_13:28. Generally, to eat together, to dine: Joh_6:11. (Cf. ἀναπίπτω, at the end. Compare: συνανάκειμαι.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀνάκειμαι anakeimai 14x
to be laid up, as offerings; later, to lie, recline at table, Mat_9:10 guest; recline.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
**ἀνά -κειμαι ,
[in LXX : 1Es_4:10 , Tob_9:6 ΰ * ;]
1. in cl ., as pass . of ἀνατίθημ , to be laid up, laid: Mar_5:40 Rec.
2. In late writers ( cf. MM , VGT , s.v. ) = κεῖσθαι , κατακεῖσθαι , to recline at table: Mat_26:20 ; part. ἀνακείμενος , Mat_9:10 ; Mat_22:10-11 ; Mat_26:7 , Mar_6:26 ; Mar_14:18 ; Mar_16:14 , Luk_22:27 , Joh_6:11 ; Joh_12:2 ; Joh_13:23 ; Joh_13:28 .†
SYN.: ἀνακλίνω G347 , ἀναπίπτω G377 , the latter denoting an act rather than a state and thus in Joh_13:25 differing from ἀνάκειμαι G345 (see. Joh_13:23 ) by indicating a change of position.
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀνάκειμαι [page 34]
For the sense accumbere ( Joh_6:11 , etc.), which does not seem to be older than the Macedonian period, may be cited BGU I. 344 (ii/iii A.D.), a list of names of οἱ ἀνακίμενοι , and ending γίνονδαι ἄνδρες ἀναγείμενου (!) μ̄ ζ ̄ . The verb occurs in the more ordinary sense, as passive to ἀνατίθημι , in the great Ephesian inscr., Syll 656 .46 (ii/A.D.) ἀνακεῖσθαι τῇ θεῷ ( be dedicated ), of the month Artemision (so also l. 52 ). The same meaning appears in ib 827 .4 καθιερωμένων καὶ ἀνακειμένων τῆι Οὐρανίαι Ἀφροδίτει (i/B.C.).
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀνά-κειμαι
[in LXX: I Est.4:10, Tob.9:6 א * ;]
__1. in cl., as pass. of ἀνατίθημ, to be laid up, laid: Mrk.5:40 Rec.
__2. In late writers (cf. MM, VGT, see word) = κεῖσθαι, κατακεῖσθαι, to recline at table: Mat.26:20; part. ἀνακείμενος, Mat.9:10 22:10-11 26:7, Mrk.6:26 14:18 16:14, Luk.22:27, Jhn.6:11 12:2 13:23, 28.†
SYN.: ἀνακλίνω, ἀναπίπτω, the latter denoting an act rather than a state and thus in Jhn.13:25 differing from ἀνάκειμαι (see. Jhn.13:23) by indicating a change of position. (AS)