STRONGS NUMBER G2646


Word Summary
katalyma: a lodging place
Original Word: κατάλυμα
Transliteration: katalyma
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-al'-oo-mah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a lodging place
Meaning: a lodging place
Strong's Concordance
guest chamber, inn.

From kataluo; properly, a dissolution (breaking up of a journey), i.e. (by implication) a lodging-place -- guestchamber, inn.

see GREEK kataluo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2646: κατάλυμα

κατάλυμα, καταλυματος, τό (from καταλύω, c.; which see), an inn, lodging-place: Luke 2:7 (for מָלון, Exodus 4:24); an eating-room, dining-room (A. V. guest-chamber): Mark 14:14; Luke 22:11; in the same sense for לִשְׁכָּה, 1 Samuel 9:22. (Polybius 2, 36, 1 (plural); 32, 19, 2; Diodorus 14, 93, 5; (others; cf. Winer's Grammar, 25, 93 (89)).)