klinē · bed, mat

What it means

klinē (κλίνη) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “bed, mat”.

Bed, couch; a stretcher.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Furniture for lying down; also the cot on which a sick person was carried.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• bed ×8
• cots ×1
• dining couches ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×3
• Luke×3
• Acts×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 9:2

  And look, they were bringing to him a paralytic lying on a bed. And seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, “Take courage, child; 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 says to the paralytic— “Get up, pick up your bed, and go to your home.”

• Mark 4:21

  And he was saying to them, “Is the lamp brought to be put under the basket or under the bed? Is it not to be put on the lampstand?

• Mark 7:4

  and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they immerse themselves; and there are many other things that they have received to hold to, immersions of cups and pitchers and copper pots and dining couches.)

• Mark 7:30

  And going away to her home, she found the child lying on the bed and the demon gone out.

• Luke 5:18

  And look, men were carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were trying to bring him in and lay him before him.

• Luke 8:16

  And no one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see the light.

• Luke 17:34

  I tell you, on this night there will be two on one bed; the one will be taken and the other will be left.

• Acts 5:15

  so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on some of them.

• Revelation 2:22

  Look, I am throwing her onto a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they change their minds from her works.