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bed⋅stead

[bed-sted, -stid]
–noun
the framework of a bed supporting the springs and a mattress.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME bedstede. See bed, stead
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bed·stead   (běd'stěd')   
n.  The frame supporting a bed.
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Bedstead

used in Deut. 3:11, but elsewhere rendered "couch," "bed." In 2 Kings 1:4; 16:2; Ps. 132:3; Amos 3:12, the divan is meant by this word.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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