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κλινίδιονStrong’s G2826

klinidion

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Klinidion is the Greek word usually translated “mat”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.”
Luke 5:19 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “mat”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • mat 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Luke 2

1 book in all.

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Greek dictionary

κλινίδιον klinidion · bed

κλινίδιον, -ου, τό dimin. of κλίνη, a conch: Luk.5:19, 24 (cf. κλενάριον).† (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.]

  1. 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.
  2. Lodging; a convenient place for sleep.
  3. Marriage; matrimonial connection.
  4. 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”
  1. The channel of a river, or that part in which the water usually flows.
  2. Any hollow place, especially in the arts; a hollow place, in which any thing rests; as the bed of a mortar.
  3. 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.
  4. Pain, torment. Revelation 2:22Isaiah 57:7Hebrews 13:4

BED, verb transitive

To place in a bed

  1. To go to bed with. [Unusual.]
  2. To make partaker of the bed
  3. To plant and inclose or cover; to set or lay and inclose; as, to bed the roots of a plant in soft mold.
  4. To lay in any hollow place, surrounded or inclosed; as to bed a stone.
  5. To lay in a place of rest or security, covered, surrounded or inclosed; as a fish bedded in sand, or under a bank.
  6. 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.