UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: κλισία; -ας

Related lemmas: κλίνω

Semantic entry: 11.5

Semantic domains: Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes

Subdomains: General

Definition: a group of persons engaged in eating together

Notes: Note that Luke employs κλισίας in essentially the same type of context in which Mark uses συμπόσια.

LUK 9:14: RV LUK 9:14 · LV LUK 9:14 · Read together LUK 9:14

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14 There were about 5,000 men (not counting women and children).
¶ Then he told his apprentices, “Sit them down in rows of about fifty each.”

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament