Definition

to lie down, i.e. (by implication) be sick; specially, to recline at a meal

Etymology

from G2596 (κατά) and G2749 (κεῖμαι);

Where the KJV renders it

• keep
• lie
• sit at meat (down)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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