STRONGS G2828:
κλισία,
κλισίας,
ἡ (
κλίνω; from
Homer down; properly, a place for lying down or reclining; hence,
1. a hut, erected to pass the night in.
2. a tent.
3. anything to recline on; a chair in which to lean back the head,
reclining-chair.
4. a company reclining; a row or party of persons reclining at meal: so in plural,
Luke 9:14, on which cf.
Winers Grammar, 229 (214); likewise in
Josephus, Antiquities 12, 2, 12;
Plutarch Sert. 26.
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