Words the Bible translates as couch
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 7 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- 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
- ravatsרָבַץto lie down: to settle the body low against the ground, the way an animal drops to rest or a predator couches over its lair
- 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
- 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
- mesavמֵסַבwhat lies round about something: the ground, the objects, or the people encircling it
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