Word 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, bedchamber
From 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.).