noun · feminine

klisias

Greekκλισία (klisia)

Strong’sG2828

a dining couch, group of diners

stem klisi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

groups1×

What it means

** κλισία, -ας, ἡ

(< κλίνω), [in LXX: III Mac 6:31 A*;]

1. a place for reclining; hence,

(a) a hut;

(b) an easy chair;

2. a company reclining: pl., Lk 9:14 (cf. FlJ, Ant., xii, 2, 12).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2828 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidklee-see'-ah

properly, reclination, i.e. (concretely and specially), a party at a meal

Fromfrom a derivative of G2827;

King Jamescompany.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	klisias	klisiais
object accusative	klisian	klisiain1×κλισίας
direct address vocative	klisiar	klisiair
of, belonging to genitive	klisiau	klisiaiu
to, for dative	klisia	klisiai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

klisistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

klisia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

klisiain“groups”objectaccusative plural1×

Luke 9:14“groups”ale gar hōsei anērois pentakischilioi. legata de pros toin mathētoin autou; Kataklinavar autoin klisiain hōsei ana pentēkonta.(There were about five thousand men.) He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”