'Couches' in the Bible
they love also the chief couches in the supper, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
having run about through all that region round about, they began upon the couches to carry about those ill, where they were hearing that he is,
and, coming from the market-place, if they do not baptize themselves, they do not eat; and many other things there are that they received to hold, baptisms of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and couches.
and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in suppers,
And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,
'Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers,
so as into the broad places to bring forth the ailing, and to lay them upon couches and mats, that at the coming of Peter, even his shadow might overshadow some one of them;