STRONGS NUMBER G2846


Word Summary
koitōn: a bedchamber
Original Word: κοιτών
Transliteration: koitōn
Phonetic Spelling: (koy-tone')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a bedchamber
Meaning: a bedchamber
Strong's Concordance
a bedroom, bedchamber

From koite; a bedroom -- + chamberlain.

see GREEK koite

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2846: κοιτών

κοιτών, κοιτῶνος, (from κοίτη; cf. νυμφών etc.), a sleeping room, bed-chamber: ἐπί τοῦ κοιτῶνος, the officer who is over the bed-chamber, the chamberlain, Acts 12:20 (2 Samuel 4:7; Exodus 8:3; 1 Esdr. 3:3; the Atticists censure the word, for which Attic writings generally used δωμάτιον; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 252f.).