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About (hōsei). Luke as Mat 14:21 adds this word to the definite statement of Mar 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 Luk 9:15.
In companies (klisias). Cognate accusative after kataklinate. Only here in the N.T. A row of persons reclining at meals (table company).
About fifty each (hōsei ana pentēkonta). Distributive use of ana and approximate number again (hōsei).