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Strong's G2825 κλίνη (kline)

Kline means “bed” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2825 — chashekah (“darkness”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2825
Language Greek
Linked Usages 55
Books 24

Strong's G2825 Quick Answer

Strong's G2825 κλίνη (kline) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kline (klee'-nay) n. 1. a couch (for sleep, sickness, sitting or eating) [from G2827] It has 55 linked Bible usages across 24 books. Visible English usage signals include bed, eat, and couches. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
kline (klee'-nay) n. 1. a couch (for sleep, sickness, sitting or eating) [from G2827]
Usage
55 linked usages
Books
24 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
bed, eat, and couches

Meaning and Definition

kline (klee'-nay) n. 1. a couch (for sleep, sickness, sitting or eating) [from G2827] KJV: bed, table Root(s): G2827

Original Word
κλίνη
Transliteration
kline
Derivation
Root: κλίνω R1: 2827
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2825. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

bed

Usage: κλίνη, -ης, ἡ (κλίνω), [in LXX chiefly for מִטָּה ;] a bed, couch: Mat.9:2, 6, Mrk.4:21 7:4, 30, Luk.5:18 8:16 17:34, Rev.2:22 (cf. MM, Exp., xv).† (AS)

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How Strong's G2825 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kline, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

bed Matthew 9:2 couches Acts 5:15 eat Mark 7:4

How Strong's G2825 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 34 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2825 (κλίνη) appears 46 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2825 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2825 in the New Testament

10 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 9:2 KJV

And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.

Matthew 9:6 KJV

But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.

Mark 4:21 KJV

And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?

Strong's G2825 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

34 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 48:2 Septuagint / Brenton

And it was reported to Jacob, saying, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh to thee; and Israel having strengthened himself, sat upon the bed.

Genesis 49:33 Septuagint / Brenton

And Jacob ceased giving charges to his sons; and having lifted up his feet on the bed, he died, and was gathered to his people.

Exodus 7:28 Septuagint / Brenton

and the river shall teem with frogs, and they shall go up and enter into thy houses, and into thy bedchambers, and upon thy beds, and upon the houses of thy servants, and of thy people, and on thy dough, and on thine ovens.

Strong's G2825 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

11 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 8:3 Septuagint / Brenton

For as he stood overseeing them that bound sheaves in the field, the heat came upon his head, and he fell on his bed, and died in his city of Bethulia: and they buried him with his fathers in the field between Dothan and Balamon.

Judith 10:21 Septuagint / Brenton

Now Holofernes rested upon his bed under a canopy, which was woven with purple, and gold, and emeralds, and precious stones.

Judith 13:2 Septuagint / Brenton

And Judith was left alone in the tent, and Holofernes lying along on his bed: for he was filled with wine.

Usage Excerpts

First 55 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2825.

Genesis 48:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it was reported to Jacob, saying, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh to thee; and Israel having strengthened himself, sat upon the bed.
Genesis 49:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob ceased giving charges to his sons; and having lifted up his feet on the bed, he died, and was gathered to his people.
Exodus 7:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the river shall teem with frogs, and they shall go up and enter into thy houses, and into thy bedchambers, and upon thy beds, and upon the houses of thy servants, and of thy people, and on thy dough, and on thine ovens.
Deuteronomy 3:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the Rephaim: behold, his bed was a bed of iron; behold, it is in the chief city of the children of Ammon; the length of it is nine cubits, and the breadth of it four cubits, according to the cubit of a man.
Judges 7:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he brought the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gideon, Whosoever shall lap of the water with his tongue as if a dog should lap, thou shalt set him apart, and also whosoever shall bow down upon his knees to drink.
1 Kingdoms 19:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Michal took images, and laid them on the bed, and she put the liver of a goat by his head, and covered them with clothes.
1 Kingdoms 19:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he sends to David, saying, Bring him to me on the bed, that I may slay him.
1 Kingdoms 19:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the messengers come, and, behold, the images were on the bed, and the goat’s liver at his head.
2 Kingdoms 3:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David said to Joab and to all the people with him, Rend your garments, and gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament before Abner. And King David followed the bier.
2 Kingdoms 4:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Ish-bosheth was sleeping on his bed in his chamber: and they smite him, and slay him, and take off his head: and they took his head, and went all the night by the western road.
3 Kingdoms 17:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elijah said to the woman, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and took him up to the chamber in which he himself lodged, and laid him on the bed.
3 Kingdoms 20:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the spirit of Ahab was troubled, and he lay down upon his bed, and covered his face, and ate no bread.
4 Kingdoms 1:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thus saith the Lord, The bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down from it, for thou shalt surely die. And Elijah went, and said so to them.
4 Kingdoms 1:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they said to him, A man came up to meet us, and said to us, Go, return to the king that sent you, and say to him, Thus saith the Lord, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that thou goest to inquire of Baal fly, the god of Ekron? it shall not be so: the bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down from it, for thou shalt surely die.
4 Kingdoms 1:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elijah spoke to him, and said, Thus saith the Lord, Why hast thou sent messengers to inquire of Baal fly, the god of Ekron? it shall not be so: the bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down from it, for thou shalt surely die.
4 Kingdoms 4:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let us now make for him an upper chamber, a small place; and let us put there for him a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall come to pass that when he comes in to us, he shall turn in thither.
4 Kingdoms 4:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she carried him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God; and she shut the door upon him, and went out.
4 Kingdoms 4:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elisha went into the house, and, behold, the dead child was laid upon his bed.
4 Kingdoms 11:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of her brother, and stole him from among the king’s sons that were put to death, secreting him and his nurse in the bedchamber, and hid him from the face of Athaliah, and he was not slain.
2 Chronicles 16:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they buried him in the sepulcher which he had dug for himself in the city of David, and they laid him on a bed, and filled it with spices and all kinds of perfumes of the apothecaries; and they made for him a very great funeral.
2 Chronicles 22:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and rescued him secretly out of the midst of the sons of the king that were put to death, and she placed him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath daughter of King Jehoram, sister of Ahaziah, wife of Jehoiada the priest, hid him, and she even hid him from Athaliah, and she did not slay him.
2 Chronicles 24:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And after they had departed from him, when they had left him in sore diseases, then his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulcher of the kings.
Esther 1:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
which was adorned with hangings of fine linen and flax on cords of fine linen and purple, fastened to golden and silver studs, on pillars of parian marble and stone: there were golden and silver couches on a pavement of emerald stone, and of pearl, and of parian stone, and open-worked coverings variously flowered, having roses worked round about;
Esther 7:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king returned from the garden; and Haman had fallen upon the bed, entreating the queen. And the king said, Wilt thou even force my wife in my house? And when Haman heard it, he changed countenance.
Job 7:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I said that my bed should comfort me, And I would privately counsel with myself on my couch.
Psalms 6:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I am wearied with my groaning; I shall wash my bed every night; I shall water my couch with my tears.
Psalms 40:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
May the Lord help him upon the bed of his pain; Thou hast made all his bed in his sickness.
Psalms 131:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will not go into the tabernacle of my house; I will not go up to the couch of my bed;
Proverbs 7:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt.
Proverbs 33:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Song of Solomon 1:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, thou art fair, my kinsman, Yea, beautiful, overshadowing our bed.
Song of Solomon 3:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold Solomon’s bed; Sixty mighty men of the mighty ones of Israel are round about it.
Ezekiel 23:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and satest on a prepared bed, and before it there was a table set out, and as for mine incense and mine oil, they rejoiced in them,
Amos 6:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
who sleep upon beds of ivory, and live delicately on their couches, and eat kids out of the flocks, and sucking calves out of the midst of the stalls;
Matthew 9:2 New Testament, KJV
And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
Matthew 9:6 New Testament, KJV
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
Mark 4:21 New Testament, KJV
And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?
Mark 7:4 New Testament, KJV
And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
Mark 7:30 New Testament, KJV
And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
Luke 5:18 New Testament, KJV
And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.
Luke 8:16 New Testament, KJV
No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.
Luke 17:34 New Testament, KJV
I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
Acts 5:15 New Testament, KJV
Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
Revelation 2:22 New Testament, KJV
Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
Judith 8:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For as he stood overseeing them that bound sheaves in the field, the heat came upon his head, and he fell on his bed, and died in his city of Bethulia: and they buried him with his fathers in the field between Dothan and Balamon.
Judith 10:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now Holofernes rested upon his bed under a canopy, which was woven with purple, and gold, and emeralds, and precious stones.
Judith 13:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And Judith was left alone in the tent, and Holofernes lying along on his bed: for he was filled with wine.
Judith 13:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So all went forth, and none was left in the bedchamber, neither little nor great. Then Judith, standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lord God of all power, look at this present upon the work of my hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem.
Judith 13:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then she came to the pillar of the bed, which was at Holofernes’ head, and took down his falchion from thence,
Judith 13:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and approached to his bed, and took hold of the hair of his head, and said, Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, this day.
Judith 15:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people spoiled the camp the space of thirty days: and they gave unto Judith Holofernes his tent, and all his plate, and beds, and vessels, and all his stuff: and she took it, and laid it on her mule; and made ready her carts, and laid them thereon.
Tobit 8:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And after that they were both shut in together, Tobias rose out of the bed, and said, Sister, arise, and let us pray that God would have pity on us.
Tobit 14:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore now, my son, consider what alms doeth, and how righteousness doth deliver. When he had said these things, he gave up the ghost in the bed, being a hundred and eight and fifty years old; and he buried him honorably.
Wisdom of Sirach 23:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
A man that breaketh wedlock, Saying thus in his heart, Who seeth me? I am compassed about with darkness, The walls cover me, And no body seeth me; what need I to fear? The most High will not remember my sins:
Wisdom of Sirach 48:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Who broughtest kings to destruction, And honorable men from their bed:

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2825, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Esther 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 2 usages, New Testament
Mark 3 usages, New Testament
Luke 3 usages, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 7 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G2825 FAQ

What does kline (κλίνη) mean?

Kline (Strong's G2825) is a Greek word most simply glossed "bed". kline (klee'-nay) n. 1. a couch (for sleep, sickness, sitting or eating) [from G2827]

How many times is kline (κλίνη) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 55 linked usages for Strong's G2825 across 24 books.

Where can I study kline (κλίνη) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2825 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate kline (κλίνη)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bed, eat, and couches. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2825 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 34 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 11 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2825, with linked reader references where each row is available.