Lexical Summary koitōn: a bedchamber Original Word: κοιτώνTransliteration: koitōn Phonetic Spelling: (koy-tone') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a bedchamber Meaning: a bedchamber Strong's Concordance a bedroom, bedchamberFrom koite; a bedroom -- + chamberlain. see GREEK koite Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2846: κοιτώνκοιτών, κοιτῶνος, ὁ (from κοίτη; cf. νυμφών etc.), a sleeping room, bed-chamber: ὁ 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.). |