Bed
κλίνηStrong’s G2825klinē
Appears in 9 verses of the New Testament
In short
Klinē is the Greek word usually translated “bed”, “mat” and “couches for dining”. It appears in 9 verses of the New Testament.
“And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.”
Meaning
Usually translated “bed”, “mat” and “couches for dining”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- bed 3
- a bed 2
- mat 1
- couches for dining 1
- a mat 1
- a sickbed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Mark 3
- Luke 3
- Matthew 2
- Revelation 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 9:6But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
- Mark 4:21And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?
- Mark 7:4And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
- Mark 7:30And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
- Luke 5:18And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.
- Luke 8:16No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.
Greek dictionary
κλίνη klinē · bed
κλίνη, -ης, ἡ (κλίνω), [in LXX chiefly for מִטָּה ;] a bed, couch: Mat.9:2, 6, Mrk.4:21 7:4, 30, Luk.5:18 8:16 17:34, Rev.2:22 (cf. MM, Exp., xv).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BED, noun
[The sense is a lay or spread, from laying or setting.]
- A place or an article of furniture to sleep and take rest on; in modern times, and among civilized men, a sack or tick filled with feathers or wool; but a bed may be made of straw or any other materials.
- Lodging; a convenient place for sleep.
- Marriage; matrimonial connection.
- A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
All definitions and other forms of “bed”
- The channel of a river, or that part in which the water usually flows.
- Any hollow place, especially in the arts; a hollow place, in which any thing rests; as the bed of a mortar.
- A layer; a stratum; an extended mass of any thing, whether upon the earth or within it; as a bed of sulphur; a bed of sand or clay.
- Pain, torment. Revelation 2:22Isaiah 57:7Hebrews 13:4
BED, verb transitive
To place in a bed
- To go to bed with. [Unusual.]
- To make partaker of the bed
- To plant and inclose or cover; to set or lay and inclose; as, to bed the roots of a plant in soft mold.
- To lay in any hollow place, surrounded or inclosed; as to bed a stone.
- To lay in a place of rest or security, covered, surrounded or inclosed; as a fish bedded in sand, or under a bank.
- To lay in a stratum; to stratify; to lay in order or flat; as bedded clay, bedded hairs
BED, verb transitive
To cohabit; to use the same bed
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.