G347: ἀνακλίνω (anaklínō)

G347 ἀνακλίνω (anaklínō)

Greek

Quick Definition

ἀνακλίνω v. I make to recline, I recline at a table

Strong's Definition

from 303 and 2827; to lean back

KJV Usage: lay, (make) sit down

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἀνακλίνω (G0347) — ἀνακλίνομαι

verb | κλίνω

17.28 · Stances and Events Related to Stances · Lie

to lay down, to lay to cause someone to lie down

LUK 2:7

17.24 · Stances and Events Related to Stances · Recline [to eat]

to cause to recline to eat, to have someone sit down to eat to cause someone to assume a reclining (or possibly sitting) position as part of the process of eating

MAT 14:19 · MRK 6:39 · LUK 12:37

17.23 · Stances and Events Related to Stances · Recline [to eat]

Collocation: ἀνακλίνομαι

to recline, to eat, to be at table, to eat, to dine, to sit down to eat to be in a reclining position as one eats (with the focus either upon the position or the act of eating)

MAT 8:11 · LUK 13:29

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀνα-κλίνω : fut. ἀνακλινῶ; 1 aor. ἀνέκλινα; Pass., 1 aor. ἀνεκλίθην;; fut. ἀνακλιθήσομαι; [fr. Hom. down]; to lean against, lean upon ; a. to lay down: twa, Lk. ii. 7 (ἐν (τῇ) φάτνῃ). b. to make or bid to recline: Mk. vi. 39 (ἐπέταξεν αὐτοῖς, sc. the disciples, ἀνακλῖναι [-κλιθῆναι L WH txt.] πάντας i.e. the people); Lk. ix 15 (T Tr WH κατέκλιναν) ; xii. 81. Pass. to lie back, recline, lie down: Mt. xiv. 19; of those reclining at table and at feasts, Lk. vii. 36 (RG); xiii. 29; Mt. viii. 11,—in the last two pass. used fig. of participation in future blessedness in the Messiah’s kingdom.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀνακλίνω anaklinō 6x

to lay down, Lk. 2:7; to cause to recline at table, etc. Mk. 6:39; Lk. 9:15; 12:37; to recline at table, Mt. 8:11

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

** ἀνα-κλίνω,

[in LXX: III Mac 5:16*;]

to lay upon, lean against, hence, to lay down: Lk 2:7;

to make to recline: Mk 6:39, WH, mg., Lk 12:37. Pass., to lie back, recline: Mt 8:11 14:19, Lk 13:29.†

SYN.: ἀνάκειμαι (q.v.), ἀναπίπτω.

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἀνακλίνω. The NT writers use ἀνακλίνεσθαι, ““ἴο recline at a table,” instead of the classical mapa- and κατα-κλίνεσθαι, in a way which suggests that this usage was characteristic of the common speech, though we are unable to illustrate it. Sir W. M. Ramsay has drawn our attention to the fact that in the anti-Christian Society of Tekmoreioi at Pisidian Antioch the President was πρωτανακλίτης, who sits in the chief place at table, and he takes this as an indication that the ritual feast was moulded on the Eucharist. For such imitations as marking the pagan reaction about A.D. 304-13, see his Pauline and other Studies, p. 103 ff.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἀνακλίνω (anaklinō) — to recline. ἀνα-κλίνω, poetry ἀγκλ-, (see. κλίνω) lean one thing upon another, [τόξον] ποτὶ γαίῃ ἀγκλίνας having laid it on the ground, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀ. ἑαυτοὺς ἐπὶ τὸ ἐναντίον, of sailors struggling against the wind, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; cause to recline at table, [NT+2nd c.BC+]:—mostly in passive, lie, sink, or lean back, recline, ἀνακλινθεὶς πέσεν ὕπτιος[Refs 8th c.BC+]; of persons asleep, [Refs]; of rowers, [Refs]; of the elephant, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; to be strung, of strings of lyre, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

2. passive, of ground, lie sloping upwards, [Refs]

II. push or put back, and so, open, θύρην ἀγκλίνας[Refs 8th c.BC+]; so of the door of Olympus, ἠμὲν ἀνακλῖναι πυκινὸν νέφος ἠδ᾽ ἐπιθεῖναι[Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὴν θύρην τὴν καταπηκτὴν ἀ., i. e. the trap-door, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

III. throw the head back, and so, lift up, τὴν τῆς ψυχῆς αὐγήν[Refs 5th c.BC+]

IV. overthrow, of earthquake, compared to batteringram, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]