a pallet-bed
| Root | κράββατος (krábbatos) |
| Core Meanings | pallet, mat, mattress, low couch, portable bed |
| Semantic Range | a poor person’s mat, a lightweight mattress, a simple couch, a portable sleeping pad carried or lifted |
| Conceptual Significance | In the Gospels and Acts, the pallet-bed often signifies poverty, physical affliction, and restoration, especially in healing narratives where the healed person lifts and carries his own pallet-bed as visible evidence of wholeness and renewed strength. |
| Morphological Notes | Noun; accusative case; masculine gender; singular number (Gr,N,,,,,AMS,). The accusative marks it as the direct object of the verb in its occurrences. |
| Rendering Rationale | "Pallet-bed" preserves the sense of a simple, portable sleeping mat rather than a furnished bed. The form is accusative masculine singular, functioning as a direct object in its clauses; the singular is reflected in "a pallet-bed," while the accusative role is carried syntactically in context. |
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