Words the Bible translates as bed
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 11 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- koitēκοίτηa bed or sleeping place: the mat, platform, or piece of furniture a person lies down on.
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- sexual intercourse, named indirectly through the image of the bed: the marriage act, illicit sex, or the pregnancy it produces.
- klinēκλίνηa bed or couch: the low, liftable frame a person stretches out on, whether to sleep, to lie ill, or to recline at a meal
- mishkavמִשְׁכָּבa bed or couch: the place where a person lies down to sleep, rest, or recover
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- a polite way of naming sexual relations: going to bed with someone
- mittahמִטָּהa bed or couch: the framed piece of furniture a body is stretched out on, whether to sleep, recline at a meal, lie ill, be carried, or be laid out in death
- krabbatosκράββατοςa sleeping mat: the thin, portable pad a poor or bedridden person lies on, light enough to roll up and carry away
- eresעֶרֶשׂa bed or couch, named with the poetic word for it rather than the everyday one
- yatsu'aיָצוּעַa bed: the bedding spread out for someone to lie on, a word used only in poetry and heightened speech
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- the low structure of rooms built out against the outside wall of Solomon's temple, or one of its stacked levels
- mishkavמִשְׁכַּבbednot studied yet
- arugahעֲרוּגָהbednot studied yet
- klinidionκλινίδιονbednot studied yet
- matstsaמַצָּעbednot studied yet
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