Greek noun (feminine) · G4411
πρωτοκλισία
protoklisiapro-tok-lis-ee'-ah
place of honor
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: prōtoklisía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4411is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4411
a reclining first (in the place of honor) at the dinner-bed, i.e. preeminence at meals
The King James renders it: chief (highest, uppermost) room.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
protoklisia is rendered "place of honor". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 23:6They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues,
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues,
Matthew 23:6πρωτοκλισίαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- first places3
- chief place1
- first place1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πρῶτος | protos | first: best | Uses152 |
| πρωτότοκος | prototokos | firstborn | Uses8 |
| πρωτοκαθεδρία | protokathedria | seat of honor | Uses4 |
| πρωτεύω | proteuo | be first | Uses1 |
| πρωτοτόκια | prototokia | birthright | Uses1 |
| πρωτοστάτης | protostates | ringleader | Uses1 |
| πρῶτον | proton | first | Usesnot recorded |
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πρωτοκλισίας3
- πρωτοκλισίαν2
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural3N-APF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular2N-ASF
Matthew
one use
They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues,
- πρωτοκλισίανprotoklisiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: chief place
Mark
one use
and to have the chief seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.
- πρωτοκλισίαςprotoklisiasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: first places
Luke
three uses
When Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, He told them a parable:
- πρωτοκλισίαςprotoklisiasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: first places
“When you are invited to a wedding banquet, do not sit in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited.
- πρωτοκλισίανprotoklisiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: first place
“Beware of the scribes. They like to walk around in long robes, and they love the greetings in the marketplaces, the chief seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at banquets.
- πρωτοκλισίαςprotoklisiasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: first places
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.