The noun κράβαττος (krabattos) designates a poor person's sleeping mat or pallet — a simple, lightweight bed that could be rolled up and carried. It features prominently in healing stories where the restored person is commanded to rise and carry the very mat that had confined them. The paralytic lowered through the roof at Capernaum takes up his krabattos at Jesus' word (Mark 2:4-12), and the invalid at Bethesda does the same after thirty-eight years (John 5:8-11). In Acts, the sick are laid on pallets in the streets hoping Peter's shadow might fall on them (Acts 5:15; 9:33). The word is colloquial, possibly of Macedonian origin, and contrasts with the more refined κλίνη. Spanish 'camilla/lecho' and French 'grabat' reflect its humble connotation.