UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, n.

Inflections: κλινάριον; -ου

Related lemmas: κλίνω

Sense 1: cot, pallet, stretcher

Semantic entry: 6.107

Semantic domains: Artifacts

Subdomains: Furniture

Definition: a relatively small and often temporary type of object on which a person may lie or recline; made of reeds or cloth; thin and light for carrying

Notes: In a number of contexts the terms κλινίδιον, κλινάριον, and κράβαττος refer to cots or stretchers on which sick or convalescent persons might be resting or on which they could be transported. There is no NT context in which these terms refer to couches on which people reclined while eating.

Further resources: realia:5.5

ACT 5:15: RV ACT 5:15 · LV ACT 5:15 · Read together ACT 5:15

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OET-RV ACT 5:15

15 Some would even bring those who were sick out to the side of the road, lying them on beds and mats waiting for Kefa (Peter; Grk. Petros) to come past so that even his shadow might touch them.

OET-LV ACT 5:15

15 so _as even to _be _bringing _out the sick on the roads, and to _be _putting them on cots and pallets, in _order _that coming of _Petros, even _if the shadow may _overshadow on _someone of _them.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

κλινάριον

Form 1

Sense 1: cot, pallet, stretcher