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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κοίτηG2845
Pronunciationkoítē
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 Itbed1×Luke 11:7
conceived1×Romans 9:10
in sexual immorality1×Romans 13:13
marriage bed1×Hebrews 13:4
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowLuke 11:7
Aligned rows4
Books represented3
Luke1Romans2Hebrews1
Source forms
κοίτην2xkoitēnLuke 11:7, Romans 9:10
κοίταις1xkoitaisRomans 13:13
κοίτη1xkoitēHebrews 13:4
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular2xLuke 11:7, Romans 9:10
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural1xRomans 13:13
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular1xHebrews 13:4
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Marriage bed or cohabitation; carries moral weight distinguishing licit from illicit sexual relations.
Strong'sG2845
Lexical occurrences4 versesGreek text appearances4 timesWord forms3 forms4 referencesVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
a couch; by extension, cohabitation; by implication, the male sperm
Extended definitionSource: 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 corpusGreek 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 11:7Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
κοίτηνkoithn
a bed, marriage bed
Read verseRomans 9:10Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
κοίτηνkoithn
a bed, marriage bed
Read verseRomans 13:13Noun Dative Plural Feminine
κοίταιςkoitaiv
a bed, marriage bed
Read verseHebrews 13:4Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
κοίτηkoith
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 patterns3Aligned forms4Case patternAccusative (2)Number patternSingular (3)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · FeminineHeb 13:41×
Dative · Plural · FeminineRom 13:131×
Accusative · Singular · FeminineLuke 11:7 · Rom 9:102×
Word Origins
κοίτη is built from this root: