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noun · masculine

koitōnos

Greekκοιτών (koitōn)

Strong’sG2846

a bed-chamber

stem koitōn-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

chamberlain

What it means

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.;]

a bed-chamber; ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ κ., a chamberlain: Ac 12:20.†

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.

Every form

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativekoitōnoskoitōnois
object accusativekoitōnonkoitōnoin
direct address vocativekoitōnorkoitōnoir
of, belonging to genitivekoitōnouκοιτῶνοςkoitōnoiu
to, for dativekoitōnokoitōnoi

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
koitōnstem+ogender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

koitōnou“chamberlain”of, belonging togenitive singular

Acts 12:20“chamberlain”Ate de thumomacharōtos Turioi kai Sidōnioi; homothumadōs de pareiale pros auton, kai peitharatois Blaston ton epi tou koitōnou tou basilevou aitele eirēnan dia tem trefirō autoiu tan chōran apo tau basilikau.Now Herod was in a furious dispute with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they convened before him. Having secured the support of Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their region depended on the king’s country for food.