Lexical Summary
prótoklisia: Place of honor, chief seat
Original Word: πρωτοκλισία
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: prótoklisia
Pronunciation: pro-to-klee-SEE-ah
Phonetic Spelling: (pro-tok-lis-ee'-ah)
KJV: chief (highest, uppermost) room
NASB: places of honor, place of honor
Word Origin: [from G4413 (πρῶτος - first) and G2828 (κλισία - groups)]
1. a reclining first (in the place of honor) at the dinner-bed, i.e. preeminence at meals
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
chief place, seat of honor
From protos and klisia; a reclining first (in the place of honor) at the dinner-bed, i.e. Preeminence at meals -- chief (highest, uppermost) room.
see GREEK protos
see GREEK klisia
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
prótos and
klisiaDefinitionthe chief place (at the table)
NASB Translationplace of honor (2), places of honor (3).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4411: πρωτοκλισίαπρωτοκλισία,
πρωτοκλισίας,
ἡ (
πρῶτος and
κλισία),
the first reclining-place, the chief place, at table (cf. Rich, Dict. of Rom. and Greek Antiq. under the phrase,
lectus tricliniaris; the relative rank of the several places at table varied among Persians, Greeks, and Romans; and what arrangement was currently followed by the Jews in Christ's day can hardly, perhaps, be determined; (yet see Edersheim. Jesus the Messiah, ii., pp. 207f 494)):
Matthew 23:6;
Mark 12:39;
Luke 11:43 Lachmann in brackets;
