UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

Sense 1: bed

Semantic entry: 6.108

Semantic domains: Artifacts

Subdomains: Furniture

Definition: a piece of furniture used for sleeping

Notes: It is not necessary to understand RV LUK 11:7 · LV LUK 11:7 · Read together LUK 11:7 to mean that the children were in the same bed with the man, but it is, of course, possible that the reference here is to a relatively humble house in which all the members of the family would sleep on a single raised platform. See also 10.37: παιδίον.

Sense 2: sexual activity, sexual life, marriage relations

Semantic entry: 23.62

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Sexual Relations

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of κοίτη[a] ‘bed,’ 6.108: κοίτη) to have sexual relations

Notes: In some languages one may speak of ‘sexual life’ as ‘the way one lives with one’s wife’ or ‘how one treats one’s wife.’

Sense 3: sexual immorality, lasciviousness

Semantic entry: 88.273

Semantic domains: Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior

Subdomains: Sexual Misbehavior

Definition: to engage in immoral sexual excess{N:001}

Sense 4: pregnant, to be pregnant

Semantic entry: 23.50

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Birth, Procreation

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to have bed, though in combination with ἔχω, κοίτη early acquired the metonymic meaning of sexual relations) to be in a state of pregnancy.

Notes: This expression contrasts with the meaning of συλλαμβάνω [source selector 000001][b], 23.49: καταβολή / 23.49: συλλαμβάνω, in that it seems to focus more upon the state of pregnancy rather than the event of conception.

Collocations: κοίτην ἔχω