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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Bed:

(Heb. mittah), for rest at night (Exd 8:3; 1Sa 19:13,15,16, etc.); during sickness (Gen 47:31; 48:2; 49:33, etc.); as a sofa for rest (1Sa 28:23; Amo 3:12). Another Hebrew word (er'es) so rendered denotes a canopied bed, or a bed with curtains (Deu 3:11; Psa 132:3), for sickness (Psa 6:6; 41:3).

In the New Testament it denotes sometimes a litter with a coverlet (Mat 9:2,6; Luk 5:18; Act 5:15).

The Jewish bedstead was frequently merely the divan or platform along the sides of the house, sometimes a very slight portable frame, sometimes only a mat or one or more quilts. The only material for bed-clothes is mentioned in 1Sa 19:13. Sleeping in the open air was not uncommon, the sleeper wrapping himself in his outer garment (Exd 22:26,27; Deu 24:12,13).

Nave's Topical Bible

Bed: Made Of

Wood,

Sgs 3:7-9;

iron,

Deu 3:11;

ivory,

Amo 6:4;

gold and silver,

Est 1:6.

Bed: Used at Meals

Amo 6:4

Bed: Exempt from Execution for Debt

Pro 22:27

Bed: Perfumed

Pro 7:17

Bed: Figurative

Psa 139:8

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Bed:

akin to klino, "to lean" (Eng., "recline, incline" etc.), "a bed," e.g., Mar 7:30, also denotes a "couch" for reclining at meals, Mar 4:21, or a "couch" for carrying the sick, Mat 9:2,6. The metaphorical phrase "to cast into a bed," Rev 2:22, signifies to afflict with disease (or possibly, to lay on a bier). In Mar 7:4 the AV curiously translates the word "tables" (marg., "beds"), RV, marg. only, "couches."
See COUCH.

Bed:

a diminutive of No. 1, "a small bed," is used in Act 5:15. Some mss. have klinon. See also No. 4.
See COUCH.

Bed:

primarily "a place for lying down" (connected with keimai, "to lie"), denotes a "bed," Luk 11:7; the marriage "bed," Hbr 13:4; in Rom 13:13, it is used of sexual intercourse. By metonymy, the cause standing for the effect, it denotes conception, Rom 9:10.

Bed:

a Macedonian word (Lat. grabatus), is "a somewhat mean bed, pallet, or mattress for the poor," Mar 2:4, 9, 11, 12; 6:55; Jhn 5:8-11; Act 5:15; 9:33. See also No. 2.
See COUCH.

Note: The verb stronnuo or stronnumi, "to spread," signifies, in Act 9:34, "to make a bed;" elsewhere it has its usual meaning.
See FURNISH, SPREAD.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Bed:

The Jewish bed consisted of the mattress, a mere mat, or one or more quilts; the covering, a finer quilt, or sometimes the outer garment worn by day (1 Samuel 19:13) which the law provided should not be kept in pledge after sunset, that the poor man might not lack his needful covering (Deuteronomy 24:13) the pillow (1 Samuel 19:13) probably formed of sheep's fleece or goat's skin with a stuffing of cotton, etc.; the bedstead, a divan or bench along the side or end of the room, sufficing at a support for the bedding. Besides we have bedsteads made of ivory, wood, etc. referred to in Deuteronomy 3:11; Amos 6:4. The ornamental portions were pillars and a canopy (Judith 13:9) ivory carvings, gold and silver, and probably mosaic work, purple and fine linen (Esther 1:6; Solomon 3:9-10). The ordinary furniture of a bedchamber in private life is given in 2 Kings 4:10.