Revelation 2:22 – Bed, sickbed, mortuary couch, or coffin?
The immoral woman is thrown into a ‘bed’ in the Greek source manuscript. However, the Greek word is also the same one used for a bier, which is a stand on which a corpse, coffin, or casket containing a corpse is placed to be carried to the grave.
The Aramaic source agrees, however, in Aramaic, the word can also mean ‘Mortuary Couch’.
So the correct translation is not really a bed, but something used to carry or display a dead body. Otherwise, the idea of an immoral woman being thrown into a bed by Jesus sounds, well, odd to say the least!
So our translation says ‘stretcher for carrying the dead’, since ‘bier’ is not a very common word these days.