Lexicon koité: a bed Original Word: κοίτη, ης, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: koité Phonetic Spelling: (koy'-tay) Short Definition: a bed, marriage bed Definition: (a) a bed, (b) a marriage bed; plur: repeated (immoral) sexual intercourse. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom keimaiDefinitiona bed NASB Translationbed (2), conceived* (1), sexual promiscuity (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2845: κοίτηκοίτη, κοίτης, ἡ ( ΚΑΩ, ΚΑΙΩ, κεῖμαι akin to κοιμάω); from Homer, Odyssey 19, 341 down; the Sept. chiefly for מִשְׁכָּב, also for שְׁכָבָה etc.; a. a place for lying down, resting, sleeping in; a bed, couch: εἰς τήν κοίτην (see εἰμί, V. 2 a.) εἰσιν, Luke 11:7. b. specifically, the marriage-bed, as in the Tragg.: τήν κοίτην μιαίνειν, of adultery (Josephus, Antiquities 2, 4, 5; Plutarch, de fluv. 8, 3), Hebrews 13:4. c. cohabitation, whether lawful or unlawful (Leviticus 15:4f, 21-25, etc.; Wis. 3:13, 16; Euripides, Med. 152; Alc. 249): plural sexual intercourse (see περιπατέω, b. α.), Romans 13:13 (A. V. chambering); by metonymy, of the cause for the effect we have the peculiar expression κοίτην ἔχειν ἐκ τίνος, to have conceived by a man, Romans 9:10; κοίτη σπέρματος, Leviticus 15:16; Leviticus 22:4; Leviticus 18:20, 23 (here κοίτη εἰς σπερματισμόν); on these phrases cf. Fritzsche, Commentary on Romans 2, p. 291f.
Strong's bed, chambering, cohabitation From keimai; a couch; by extension, cohabitation; by implication, the male sperm -- bed, chambering, X conceive. see GREEK keimai |
