The verb keimai (to lie) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

3: 10Even now the ax is lying (keimai) at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
5: 14"You are the light of the world. A city lying (keimai) on a hill cannot be hid.
28: 6He is not here; for he has been raised, as he said. Come, see the place where he lies (keimai).

Luke

2: 12This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying (keimai) in a manger."
2: 16So they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the child lying (keimai) in the manger.
2: 34Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, "This child is lying (keimai) for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be opposed
3: 9Even now the ax is lying (keimai) at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."
12: 19And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods lying (keimai) up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.'
23: 53Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid it in a rock-hewn tomb where no one had ever been lying (keimai).

John

2: 6Now lying (keimai) there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
19: 29A jar full of sour wine was lying (keimai) there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth.
20: 5He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying (keimai) there, but he did not go in.
20: 6Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying (keimai) there,
20: 7and the cloth that had been on Jesus' head, not lying (keimai) with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself.
20: 12and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying (keimai), one at the head and the other at the feet.
21: 9When they had gone ashore, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lied (keimai) thereon, and bread.

1 John

5, 19We know that we are God's children, and that the whole world lies (keimai) under the power of the evil one.