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κλίνη

klínē · G2825 · Greek · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. bed, couch, cot, stretcher or bier

    Any piece of furniture employed for reclining or lying on

    Examples

    Matthew 9:2 And they brought to Him a paralyzed man lying on a stretcher. And seeing their faith, Jesus said to the man who was paralyzed, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”

    Matthew 9:6 “But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—then He said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, pick up your stretcher and go home.”

    Mark 4:21 And He was saying to them, “A lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, or under a bed, is it? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand?

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 2 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

7 occurrences in 4 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Near synonyms 1 word
κράββατος krábbatos · G2895 · cot, pallet, stretcher
Both terms denote portable furniture for reclining or sleeping, but κλίνη encompasses a broader range from formal dining couches to funeral biers, while κράββατος is consistently used for the humble pallet or mattress of the sick or poor. The terms overlap in the domain of portable sleeping surfaces, particularly those used for the bedridden.
In the other Testament 2 words
מִטָּה miṭṭâh · H4296 · couch, bed, bier
Hebrew term for bed/couch with narrower functional scope (bed-chamber, bier) compared to Greek term's broader semantic range (sleep, sickness, sitting, eating).
עֶרֶשׂ ʻeres · H6210 · bed
Both denote a piece of furniture for reclining/sleeping (bed, couch); Greek κλίνη and Hebrew עֶרֶשׂ are direct translation equivalents across the LXX alignment data with overlapping semantic ranges.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Bed, couch, cot, stretcher, bier6.106
κλίνη is used generally of a bed or couch for lying down. Mark 4:21 asks rhetorically, “A lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, or under a bed, is it?” the κλίνη naming this ordinary bed used for household furniture.
Cot, pallet, stretcher6.107
The same word can specifically denote a portable mat or stretcher used to carry the sick. Matthew 9:6 has Jesus telling the paralyzed man, “Get up, pick up your stretcher and go home,” the κλίνη naming this pallet on which he had been carried and could now carry himself.
Word family 10 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

κλίνω klínō · G2827 · to bow down (the head), to incline, to cause to run away · 7×κλίνηklínē · G2825ἀνακλίνω anaklínō · G347 · to lay down, to lay, to cause to recline to eat · 6×κατακλίνω kataklínō · G2625 · to cause to recline to eat, to have someone sit down to eat, to recline · 5×ἐκκλίνω ekklínō · G1578 · to shun, to avoid, to keep away from · 3×κλίμα klíma · G2824 · region, territory, land · 3×κλινίδιον klinídion · G2826 · cot, pallet, stretcher · 2×ἀκλινής aklinḗs · G186 · without wavering, firmly · 1×κλισία klisía · G2828 · a group eating together · 1×πρόσκλισις prósklisis · G4346 · prejudice, partiality · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κλίνης, ἡ (κλίνω); from Herodotus down; the Sept. for מִטָּה, also for עֶרֶשׁ; a bed:…
κλίνης, ἡ (κλίνω); from Herodotus down; the Sept. for מִטָּה, also for עֶרֶשׁ; a bed: universally, Mk 7:30; Lk 17:34; a couch to recline on at meals, Mk 4:21; Mk 7:4 (T WH omit); Lk 8:16; a couch on which a sick man is carried, Mt 9:2, Mt 9:6; Lk 5:18; plural Acts 5:15 R G; βάλλειν εἰς κλίνην, to cast into a bed, i. e. to afflict with disease, Rev 2:22.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Furniture10 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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