Bible Dictionary: Mattress

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened.

2. (n.) A mass of interwoven brush, poles, etc., to protect a bank from being worn away by currents or waves.

Greek

2895. krabattos -- a camp bed
... a camp bed. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: krabattos Phonetic
Spelling: (krab'-bat-os) Short Definition: a bed, mattress, mat Definition: a bed ...
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Library

Money for Postage.
... A SPRING MATTRESS. "Last Summer, when I bought my bedstead, I did not have
money to get either springs or a mattress, so I fixed ...
//christianbookshelf.org/various/the wonders of prayer/money for postage.htm

The Treasure Cave
... In one corner was a two-seated bari, in another a mattress of woven reeds. ...
The mattress he laid upon the broad top of the sarcophagus. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xx the treasure cave.htm

Some Words and Works of Jesus
... So Jesus said to the man, 'Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.' And at once
the sick man was well, and took up his mattress and walked. ...
/.../anonymous/the good shepherd/chapter vi some words and.htm

Daniel's Sickness and Happy Death.
... We found him sleeping on a mattress. He awoke soon after we entered his room, but
the attendants found it difficult to make him understand who we were. ...
/.../hodson/old daniel/chapter twenty five daniels sickness.htm

Christ's Authority to Forgive
... that the palsied man was carried by four friends"no doubt one at each corner of
the bed, which would be some light framework, or even a mere quilt or mattress ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture d/christs authority to forgive.htm

Struggling and Seeking
... gains. No matter how soft is the mattress, if there is one tiny thorn
sticking up through it all the softness goes for nothing. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/struggling and seeking.htm

Jesus Heals a Paralytic at Capernaum.
... An Oriental bed is a thin mattress, or pallet, just large enough for a man to lie
upon; and those generally used by the poor to-day are made of sheepskin with ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/xxxv jesus heals a paralytic.htm

"Confido"
... During the nights of anguish, when his tortured limbs could find no rest on the
hard straw mattress which he could never be prevailed upon to change for ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/forbes/life of st vincent de paul/chapter 11 confido.htm

"The Pharaoh Drew Nigh"
... With satisfaction in his manner Nechutes conducted his guest into a comfortably
furnished tent, and showed him a mattress overlaid with sheeting of fine linen. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xliii the pharaoh drew.htm

Family Habits.
... more consequence, his caste, he submitted to the penalty imposed; this was, that
he should sleep for seven years on a bedstead, without any mattress, the whole ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter xvii family habits.htm

Thesaurus

Mattress (3 Occurrences)
... or waves. Multi-Version Concordance Mattress (3 Occurrences). Luke 5:25
Instantly he stood up in their presence, took up the mattress...
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Bed (142 Occurrences)
... Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction
from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the ...
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Bedstead (1 Occurrence)
... As marking the several stages of that development, we find pictures of the poor,
first sleeping upon the ground without mat or mattress, then in a single ...
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Bedchamber (6 Occurrences)
... As marking the several stages of that development, we find pictures of the poor,
first sleeping upon the ground without mat or mattress, then in a single ...
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Pillows (6 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 19:13 and Michal taketh the teraphim, and layeth on the bed, and the mattress
of goats' 'hair' she hath put 'for' his pillows, and covereth with a ...
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Litter (1 Occurrence)
... lit'-er (tsabh): (1) Used upon backs of camels for easy riding, made of a wooden
frame with light mattress and pillows, also a covering above, supported by ...
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Layeth (76 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 19:13 and Michal taketh the teraphim, and layeth on the bed, and the mattress
of goats' 'hair' she hath put 'for' his pillows, and covereth with a ...
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Instantly (39 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Luke 5:25 Instantly he stood up in their presence, took up the mattress on
which he had been lying, and went away to his home, giving glory to God. (WEY) ...
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Mattocks (3 Occurrences)

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Mattresses (1 Occurrence)

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Bible Concordance

Mattress (3 Occurrences)

Luke 5:25 Instantly he stood up in their presence, took up the mattress on which he had been lying, and went away to his home, giving glory to God.
(WEY)

1 Samuel 19:13 and Michal taketh the teraphim, and layeth on the bed, and the mattress of goats' 'hair' she hath put 'for' his pillows, and covereth with a garment.
(YLT)

1 Samuel 19:16 And the messengers come in, and lo, the teraphim 'are' on the bed, and the mattress of goats' 'hair', 'for' his pillows.
(YLT)

Subtopics

Mattress

Related Terms

Bed (142 Occurrences)

Bedstead (1 Occurrence)

Bedchamber (6 Occurrences)

Pillows (6 Occurrences)

Litter (1 Occurrence)

Layeth (76 Occurrences)

Instantly (39 Occurrences)

Mattocks (3 Occurrences)