noun · feminine
klisias
Strong’sG2828
a dining couch, group of diners
stem klisi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** κλισία, -ας, ἡ
(< κλίνω), [in LXX: III Mac 6:31 A*;]
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, κλίνω) place for lying down or reclining: hence,
I hut, shed, booth, 1. for use in peace, cot, cabin, once in Refs 8th c.BC+
I.2 for use in war, hut, κ. εὔπηκτος, εὔτυκτος, Refs 8th c.BC+: frequently in plural, camp, Refs; πῦρ ἐν κλισίῃσι βαλόντες Refs 8th c.BC+: used by Trag. in Lyric poetry and anapaest meter, Refs 5th c.BC+, of wine-shops, Refs; εὐσεβέων κλισίη, of the grave, Refs 2nd c.BC+; chapel, ἡ κ. ἡ ἱερά Refs; compare κλεισία.
II anything for lying or sitting upon, couch or easy chair, Refs 8th c.BC+
II.2 couch for reclining on at table, Refs 5th c.BC+; place on such couch, κ. ἄτιμος Refs 1st c.AD+
II.3 nuptial bed, Refs 5th c.BC+
III company of people sitting at meals, NT; banquet, εὐωχίαι τε καὶ κ. Refs 1st c.AD+; room for company, Refs 2nd c.AD+
IV way of lying, decubitus, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| 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
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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
klisiain“groups”objectaccusative plural1×
Luke 9:14… pros toin mathētoin autou; Kataklinavar autoin klisiain hōsei ana pentēkonta.… disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”