noun · feminine
koitas
Strong’sG2845
a bed, marriage bed
stem koit-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
κοίτη, -ης, ἡ (in Hom., κοῖτος),
[in LXX chiefly for מִשְׁכָּב, also for שְׁכָבָה, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2845 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkoy'-tay
a couch; by extension, cohabitation; by implication, the male sperm
Fromfrom G2749;
King Jamesbed, chambering, X conceive.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(κεῖμαι) ={κοῖτος} 1, once in Refs 8th c.BC+; bedstead, Refs 3rd c.BC+, etc.; especially marriage-bed, Refs 5th c.BC+; also πετρίνη κοίτη, of a cave, Refs 5th c.BC+; τειρομέναν νοσερᾷ κ. on a sick-bed, Refs 5th c.BC+; κοίταν δ᾽ ἔχει νέρθεν, of one dead, Refs 5th c.BC+: metaphorically, of the sea, ἐν μεσημβριναῖς κοίταις.. εὕδοι πεσών Refs 4th c.BC+; of the bed of a river, Refs 6th c.AD+
2 lair of a wild beast, nest of a bird, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+; κ. ποιεῖσθαι, of the spider, Refs 4th c.BC+; of the fish ἐξώκοιτος, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 quarters, τῶν φυλακιτῶν Refs 3rd c.BC+; see infr. VI.
4 pen, fold for cattle, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II act of going to bed, τῆς κοίτης ὥρη bed-time, Refs 5th c.BC+; τραπέζῃ καὶ κοίτῃ δέκεσθαι to entertain 'at bed and board', Refs; τὴν σκηνὴν εἰς κ. διέλυον for going to bed, Refs 5th c.BC+ to lie still in death, Refs 4th c.BC+
III lodging, entertainment, Refs 1st c.BC+
IV of sexual connexion, κ. διδόναι LXX; κ. ἔχειν ἐκ.. to become pregnant by a man, NT; in bad sense, lasciviousness, Refs
V parcel, lot of land, Refs 2nd c.AD+
VI chest, case, or basket, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | koitas1×κοίτη | koitais |
| object accusative | koitan2×κοίτην | koitain |
| direct address vocative | koitar | koitair |
| of, belonging to genitive | koitau | koitaiu |
| to, for dative | koita | koitai1×κοίταις |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
koita is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
koitas“bed”subjectnominative singular1×
Hebrews 13:4… tos gamos en pantoi kai tas koitas amiantas, pornoin gar kai moichoin krinati …… honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge …
koitan“bed”objectaccusative singular2×
Luke 11:7… paidieim mu meta mu eis tan koitan alō; ouk dunomō anastēarantos dōara si.… my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up to give …
Romans 9:10“conceiving,”… de, alla kai Rebekkas ek henou koitan echarōntas, Isaak tou patrou nu;… only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.
koitai“sexual immorality”to, fordative plural1×
Romans 13:13… peripataneia, mē kōmoi kai methai, mē koitai kai aselgeiai, mē erida kai zēlo,… in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and …