Word Summary
anapiptō: to fall back
Original Word: ἀναπίπτωTransliteration: anapiptō
Phonetic Spelling: (an-ap-ip'-to)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to fall back
Meaning: to fall back
Strong's Concordance
lean, sit down.
From ana and pipto; to fall back, i.e. Lie down, lean back -- lean, sit down (to meat).
see GREEK ana
see GREEK pipto
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 377: ἀναπίπτωἀναπίπτω: 2 aorist
ἀνέπεσον, 3 person plural
ἀνέπεσον Mark 6:40 (
T Tr WH ἀνέπεσαν);
John 6:10 (
L T Tr WH ἀνέπεσαν), infinitive
ἀναπεσεῖν, imperative
ἀνάπεσε Luke 14:10 (
Rec. ἀνάπεσον from 1 aorist
ἀνέπεσα ((Griesbach
ἀνάπεσαι i. e. 1 aorist middle imperative)));
Luke 17:7 (
R G ἀνάπεσαι, cf.
WH. Appendix, p. 164;
Tdf. Proleg., p. 123; see
πίπτω, participle
ἀναπεσών; cf.
Winers Grammar, § 13, 1, p. 73 (71); (
Buttmann, 39f (34f), 67 (59); from
Euripides down);
to lie back, lie down: absolutely,
Mark 6:40;
John 6:10 (namely, on the ground);
ἐπί τήν γῆν,
Matthew 15:35;
ἐπί τῆς γῆς,
Mark 8:6. In later Greek (cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 216; (
Winer's Grammar, 23 (22))) for
ἀνακλίνομαι to recline at table:
Luke 11:37;
Luke 14:10;
Luke 17:7;
Luke 22:14;
John 13:12;
John 21:20 (others refer this to the following meaning).
to lean back, John 13:25 L Tr WH. (It denotes an act rather than a state, and in the last passage differs from
ἀνάκειμαι,
John 13:23, by indicating a change of position.)