noun · masculine
koitōnos
Strong’sG2846
a bed-chamber
stem koitōn-once in the New Testament1 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.
κοιτών, -ῶνος, ὁ
(< κοίτη = Att.., δωμότιον, v. Kennedy, Sources, 40), [in LXX chiefly for חֶדֶר, II Ki 4:7, Jl 2:16, I Es 3:3, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2846 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkoy-tone'
a bedroom
Fromfrom G2845;
King James+ chamberlain.
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
bed-chamber, Refs 5th c.BC+chamberlain, NT+2nd c.AD+; ἐπὶ κ. Σεβαστοῦ, = Latin cubicularius Augusti, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 grave, Refs
3 nursery, ἐν κ. εἶναι to be an infant, minor, Refs 6th c.AD+
II landing-place, Refs
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 | koitōnos | koitōnois |
| object accusative | koitōnon | koitōnoin |
| direct address vocative | koitōnor | koitōnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | koitōnou1×κοιτῶνος | koitōnoiu |
| to, for dative | koitōno | koitōnoi |
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
koitōno 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
koitōnou“chamberlain”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 12:20… kai peitharantois Blaston ton epi tou koitōnou tou basilevou aitole eirēnan dia tem …… the support of Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their …