Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
About (wsei). Luke as Matthew 14:21 adds this word to the definite statement of Mark 6:44 that there were 5,000 men, a hundred companies of fifty each.
Sit down (kataklinate). First aorist active imperative. Recline, lie down. Only in Luke in the N.T. See also verse Luke 9:15.
In companies (klisiav). Cognate accusative after kataklinate. Only here in the N.T. A row of persons reclining at meals (table company).
About fifty each (wsei ana penthkonta). Distributive use of ana and approximate number again (wsei).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 9:14:
Luke 14:8
John 6:1
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