Dictionaries :: Lie (To Lie Down, On, Upon)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Lie (To Lie Down, On, Upon):

"to be laid, to lie," used as the Passive Voice of tithemi, "to lay" (See LAY, No. 14), is said

(a) of the Child Jesus, Luk 2:12, 16;

(b) of the dead body of the Lord, Mat 28:6; Jhn 20:12; in Luk 23:53, "had... lain," RV, AV, "was laid" [see LAY, No. 14, Note (1)], in the tomb as hitherto empty;

(c) of the linen cloths, Jhn 20:5, 6, 7;

(d) figuratively of a veil as "lying" upon the hearts of the Jews, 2Cr 3:15, RV, "lieth" (AV, "is");

(e) metaphorically, of the world as "lying" in the evil one, 1Jo 5:19, RV;

(f) of the heavenly city, Rev 21:16. For other instances in which the rendering is in the Passive Voice, see LAY, No. 14.
See APPOINT.

Lie (To Lie Down, On, Upon):

"to lie down" (kata, "down," and No. 1), is used of the sick, Mar 1:30; 2:4; Luk 5:25; Jhn 5:3, 6; Act 28:8; in Act 9:33 it is rendered "had kept (his bed)," lit., "lying (on a bed)."
See SIT.

Lie (To Lie Down, On, Upon):

"to throw, cast," is used in the Passive Voice, with reference to the sick, with the meaning "to be laid, to lie," in Mat 8:6, "(my servant) lieth (in the house)," lit., "is laid;" Mat 8:14, "lying," RV, (AV, "laid"); Mat 9:2, "lying (on a bed)."
See CAST.

Lie (To Lie Down, On, Upon):

"to lie upon, be laid upon," is translated with this meaning, intransitively in Jhn 11:38; Act 27:20; transitively, in the Passive Voice, in Jhn 21:9; 1Cr 9:16.
See IMPOSED.

Notes:

(1) In Mar 5:40, some mss. have the verb anakeimai, "to be laid up," translated "was lying," AV. In the most authentic the word is absent.

(2) In Act 27:12, AV, blepo, "to look," is rendered "lieth," of the situation of the heaven Phoenix (AV, Phenice); RV, "looketh."

(3) In Jhn 11:17, AV, the verb echo, "to have, to hold," used with en, "in," signifying "to be in a certain condition," is translated "had lain" (RV, "had been").

(4) In Jhn 13:25, anapipto, lit., "to fall upon," hence the AV, "lying"), is used of John's position at the table, RV, "leaning back (... on Jesus' breast)."