STRONGS G2846:
κοιτών,
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.).
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