What Does “Couch” Mean in the Bible?
A bed.
A detail
- In the Bible: they carried the sick out into the streets on cots, so that when Peter passed by, his shadow would fall on them.
Where it appears in the Bible
Acts 5:15; Esther 7:8
What the Bible says
Acts 5:15
Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that when Peter came, his shadow at the least, might overshadow any of them, and they might be delivered from their infirmities.
Esther 7:8
And when the king came back out of the garden set with trees, and entered into the place of the banquet, he found Aman was fallen upon the bed on which Esther lay, and he said: He will force the queen also in my presence, in my own house. The word was not yet gone out of the king’s mouth, and immediately they covered his face.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Dictionary.com, “couch”