UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, n.

Inflections: προσκεφάλαιον; -ου

Related lemmas: κεφαλιόω

Sense 1: cushion, pillow

Semantic entry: 6.110

Semantic domains: Artifacts

Subdomains: Furniture

Definition: an object, usually soft, on which one may lay one’s head

Notes: In rendering RV MRK 4:38 · LV MRK 4:38 · Read together MRK 4:38 it is important to avoid a translation which would suggest that Jesus was so small or coiled up as to be able to sleep on a single pillow.

Further resources: realia:5.6

MRK 4:38: RV MRK 4:38 · LV MRK 4:38 · Read together MRK 4:38

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OET-RV MRK 4:38

38 However, Yeshua was asleep on a cushion in the back, so they woke him, calling out, “Teacher, don’t you care that we’re all about to drown?”

OET-LV MRK 4:38

38 And he was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion.
And they _are _awaking him and are _saying to _him:
Teacher, is_ not _caring to _you that we _are _perishing?

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

προσκεφάλαιον

Form 1

Sense 1: cushion, pillow