noun · feminine
prōtoklisias
Strong’sG4411
the chief place at a banquet
stem prōtoklisi-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
*† πρωτο-κλισία, -ας, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4411 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
first seat at table, NT; compare πρωτοκαθεδρία.
πρωτο-καθεδρία, ἡ,
the first seat in a public place, NT
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 | prōtoklisias | prōtoklisiais |
| object accusative | prōtoklisian2×πρωτοκλισίαν | prōtoklisiain3×πρωτοκλισίας |
| direct address vocative | prōtoklisiar | prōtoklisiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | prōtoklisiau | prōtoklisiaiu |
| to, for dative | prōtoklisia | prōtoklisiai |
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
prōtoklisia 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
prōtoklisian“place of honor”objectaccusative singular2×
Matthew 23:6“place of honor”filalō de tan prōtoklisian en tei deipnei kai tain prōtokathedriain …They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues,
Luke 14:8… eis gamoin, mē katakliniseia eis tan prōtoklisian, mēpote entimoteros su ateiō kalorēntos hupo …… banquet, do not sit in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than …
prōtoklisiain“places of honor”objectaccusative plural3×
Mark 12:39kai prōtokathedriain en tai sunagōgai kai prōtoklisiain en tei deipnei,… seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.
Luke 14:7… toin kalorēntoin parabolan, epecharōntos pōs tain prōtoklisiain eklegole, legarōntos pros autoin;… noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, He told them a parable:
Luke 20:46… kai prōtokathedriain en tai sunagōgai kai prōtoklisiain en tei deipnei,… seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at banquets.