What does κοίτη (koítē) mean in the Bible?
κοίτη (koítē): Marriage bed or cohabitation; carries moral weight distinguishing licit from illicit sexual relations.
Greek · G2845
κοίτη
A couch; by extension, cohabitation; by implication, the male sperm
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κοίτη G2845
Pronunciation koítē
What does κοίτη (koítē) mean in the Bible?
κοίτη (koítē): Marriage bed or cohabitation; carries moral weight distinguishing licit from illicit sexual relations.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G2845?
The BSB source-word alignment has 4 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include bed (1), conceived (1), in sexual immorality (1), marriage bed (1).
Where does κοίτη (koítē) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 11:7. Its strongest book concentrations include Romans (2), Hebrews (1), Luke (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It bed 1× Luke 11:7
conceived 1× Romans 9:10
in sexual immorality 1× Romans 13:13
marriage bed 1× Hebrews 13:4
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Luke 11:7
Aligned rows 4
Books represented 3
Luke 1 Romans 2 Hebrews 1
Source forms
κοίτην 2x koitēn Luke 11:7, Romans 9:10
κοίταις 1x koitais Romans 13:13
κοίτη 1x koitē Hebrews 13:4
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 2x Luke 11:7, Romans 9:10
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural 1x Romans 13:13
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular 1x Hebrews 13:4
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Marriage bed or cohabitation; carries moral weight distinguishing licit from illicit sexual relations.
Strong's G2845
Lexical occurrences 4 verses Greek text appearances 4 times Word forms 3 forms 4 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
a couch; by extension, cohabitation; by implication, the male sperm
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Marriage bed or cohabitation; carries moral weight distinguishing licit from illicit sexual relations.
a bed: Luk.11:7; esp. the marriage-bed: κ. ἀμίαντος, Heb.13:4; κ. ἔχειν, of a woman conceiving, Rom.9:10 (cf. peculiar phrases in LXX, Lev.15:18, al.); of illicit intercourse, pl., Rom.13:13.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
4 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Luke 11:7 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
κοίτην koithn
a bed, marriage bed
Read verse Romans 9:10 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
κοίτην koithn
a bed, marriage bed
Read verse Romans 13:13 Noun Dative Plural Feminine
κοίταις koitaiv
a bed, marriage bed
Read verse Hebrews 13:4 Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
κοίτη koith
a bed, marriage bed
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 3 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 3 Aligned forms 4 Case pattern Accusative (2) Number pattern Singular (3)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Feminine Heb 13:4 1×
Dative · Plural · Feminine Rom 13:13 1×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Luke 11:7 · Rom 9:10 2×
Word Origins
κοίτη is built from this root:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain