'Couch' in the Bible
Unstable as water, thou art not abundant; For thou hast gone up thy father's bed; Then thou hast polluted: My couch he went up!
and the River hath teemed with frogs, and they have gone up and gone into thy house, and into the inner-chamber of thy bed, and on thy couch, and into the house of thy servants, and among thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs;
and it cometh to pass, at evening-time, that David riseth from off his couch, and walketh up and down on the roof of the king's house, and seeth from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman is of very good appearance,
and David calleth for him, and he eateth before him, and drinketh, and he causeth him to drink, and he goeth out in the evening to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, and unto his house he hath not gone down.
And Jonadab saith to him, 'Lie down on thy couch, and feign thyself sick, and thy father hath come in to see thee, and thou hast said unto him, 'Let, I pray thee, Tamar my sister come in and give me bread to eat; and she hath made the food before mine eyes so that I see it, and have eaten from her hand.'
couch, and basin, and earthen vessel, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and roasted corn, and beans, and lentiles, and roasted pulse,
And he buildeth against the wall of the house a couch round about, even the walls of the house round about, of the temple and of the oracle, and maketh sides round about.
The lowest couch, five by the cubit is its breadth; and the middle, six by the cubit is its breadth; and the third, seven by the cubit is its breadth, for withdrawings he hath put to the house round about, without -- not to lay hold on the walls of the house.
And he buildeth the couch against all the house, five cubits is its height, and it taketh hold of the house by cedar-wood.
As to sons of Reuben, first-born of Israel -- for he is the first-born, and on account of his profaning the couch of his father hath his birthright been given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, and he is not to be reckoned by genealogy for the birthright,
And the king hath turned back out of the garden of the house unto the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman is falling on the couch on which Esther is, and the king saith, 'Also to subdue the queen with me in the house?' the word hath gone out from the mouth of the king, and the face of Haman they have covered.
When I said, 'My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.
I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night on my bed, With my tear my couch I waste.
Jehovah supporteth on a couch of sickness, All his bed Thou hast turned in his weakness.
If I have remembered Thee on my couch, In the watches -- I meditate on Thee.
'If I enter into the tent of my house, If I go up on the couch of my bed,
My path and my couch Thou hast fanned, And with all my ways hast been acquainted.
If I ascend the heavens -- there Thou art, And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee!
With ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works -- cotton of Egypt.
Lo, thou art fair, my love, yea, pleasant, Yea, our couch is green,
On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not!
Lo, his couch, that is Solomon's, Sixty mighty ones are around it, Of the mighty of Israel,
On a mountain, high and exalted, Thou hast set thy couch, Also thither thou hast gone up to make a sacrifice.
And behind the door, and the post, Thou hast set up thy memorial, For from Me thou hast removed, and goest up, Thou hast enlarged thy couch, And dost covenant for thyself among them, Thou hast loved their couch, the station thou sawest,
And thou hast sat on a couch of honour, And a table arrayed before it, And My perfume and My oil placed on it.
Thus said Jehovah: As the shepherd delivereth from the lion's mouth Two legs, or a piece of an ear, So delivered are the sons of Israel, Who are sitting in Samaria on the corner of a bed, And in Damascus on that of a couch.
and lo, they were bringing to him a paralytic, laid upon a couch, and Jesus having seen their faith, said to the paralytic, 'Be of good courage, child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.'
But, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power upon the earth to forgive sins -- (then saith he to the paralytic) -- having risen, take up thy couch, and go to thy house.'
and not being able to come near to him because of the multitude, they uncovered the roof where he was, and, having broken it up, they let down the couch on which the paralytic was lying,
which is easier, to say to the paralytic, The sins have been forgiven to thee? or to say, Rise, and take up thy couch, and walk?
I say to thee, Rise, and take up thy couch, and go away to thy house;'
and he rose immediately, and having taken up the couch, he went forth before all, so that all were astonished, and do glorify God, saying -- 'Never thus did we see.'
And he said to them, 'Doth the lamp come that under the measure it may be put, or under the couch -- not that it may be put on the lamp-stand?
and having come away to her house, she found the demon gone forth, and the daughter laid upon the couch.
And lo, men bearing upon a couch a man, who hath been struck with palsy, and they were seeking to bring him in, and to place before him,
and not having found by what way they may bring him in because of the multitude, having gone up on the house-top, through the tiles they let him down, with the little couch, into the midst before Jesus,
And that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority upon the earth to forgive sins -- (he said to the one struck with palsy) -- I say to thee, Arise, and having taken up thy little couch, be going on to thy house.'
And no one having lighted a lamp doth cover it with a vessel, or under a couch doth put it; but upon a lamp-stand he doth put it, that those coming in may see the light,
'When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him,
'I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;
Jesus saith to him, 'Rise, take up thy couch, and be walking;'
and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his couch, and was walking, and it was a sabbath on that day,
the Jews then said to him that hath been healed, 'It is a sabbath; it is not lawful to thee to take up the couch.'
He answered them, 'He who made me whole -- that one said to me, Take up thy couch, and be walking;'
they questioned him, then, 'Who is the man who is saying to thee, Take up thy couch and be walking?'
and he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name -- for eight years laid upon a couch -- who was paralytic,
lo, I will cast her into a couch, and those committing adultery with her into great tribulation -- if they may not repent of their works,