Ancient Greek

Verb

κεῖμαι • ‎(keîmai)

1. to lie, lie outstretched
   1. to lie asleep, repose, lie idle, lie still
   2. to lie sick or wounded, lie in misery
   3. to lie dead
   4. to lie neglected, uncared for, unburied
   5. (of wrestlers) to have a fall
2. (of places) to lie, be situated
   1. (of things) to lie in a place
3. to be laid up, be in store (of goods, property, etc.)
4. to be set up, proposed
   1. (of laws) to be laid down
   2. (of arguments) to be laid down
   3. (of names) to be given
5. (figuratively)
   1. to be in the power of
   2. to be in such a manner
   3. to be
   4. to settle down, deposit a sediment
   5. (grammar, of words and phrases) to be found, to occur

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἄκοιτις ‎(ákoitis)
• κειμήλιον ‎(keimḗlion), κειμήλιο ‎(keimílio)
• κοιμάω ‎(koimáō)
• κοίτη ‎(koítē)
• κοῖτος ‎(koîtos)

References

• κεῖμαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κεῖμαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κεῖμαι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «κεῖμαι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «κεῖμαι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• κεῖμαι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2749”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press
• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag