STRONGS G2845:
κοίτη,
κοίτης,
ἡ (
ΚΑΩ,
ΚΑΙΩ,
κεῖμαι akin to
κοιμάω); from
Homer, Odyssey 19, 341 down; the
Sept. chiefly for
מִשְׁכָּב, also for
שְׁכָבָה etc.;
a. a place for lying down, resting, sleeping in; a bed, couch:
εἰς τήν κοίτην (see
εἰμί, V. 2 a.)
εἰσιν,
Luke 11:7.
b. specifically,
the marriage-bed, as in the Tragg.:
τήν κοίτην μιαίνειν, of adultery (
Josephus, Antiquities 2, 4, 5;
Plutarch, de fluv. 8, 3),
Hebrews 13:4.
c. cohabitation, whether lawful or unlawful (
Leviticus 15:4f,
21-25, etc.; Wis. 3:13, 16;
Euripides, Med. 152; Alc. 249): plural
sexual intercourse (see
περιπατέω, b.
α.),
Romans 13:13 (
A. V. chambering); by metonymy, of the cause for the effect we have the peculiar expression
κοίτην ἔχειν ἐκ τίνος,
to have conceived by a man, Romans 9:10;
κοίτη σπέρματος,
Leviticus 15:16;
Leviticus 22:4;
Leviticus 18:20,
23 (here
κοίτη εἰς σπερματισμόν); on these phrases cf. Fritzsche, Commentary on
Romans 2, p. 291f.
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