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Strong's #4904 - מִשְׁכָּב
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- a lying down, couch, bier, act of lying
- couch, bed
- act of lying, lying down or sleeping room, bedroom
- lying down (for sexual contact)
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2834) bks (סהכב ShKB) AC: Lay CO: Bed AB: Copulation: A laying down for copulation. [from: bs]
V) bks (סהכב ShKB) - Lay: To lay down for copulation, rest or sleep. KJV (212): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Hophal, Pual) lie, sleep, rest - Strongs: H7901 (שָׁכַב)
Nf1) ebks (סהכבה ShKBH) - Lying: A laying with another in copulation. Also something spread out. KJV (9): copulation, lie, carnally, from - Strongs: H7902 (שִׁכְבָה)
cf2) tbfks (סהכובת ShKWBT) - Copulation: KJV (4): lie - Strongs: H7903 (שְׁכֹבֶת)
hm) bksm (מסהכב MShKB) - Bed: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (52): bed, couch - Strongs: H4903 (מִשְׁכַּב), H4904 (מִשְׁכָּב)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 couch, bed (37t.), 2 Samuel 4:11; Hosea 7:14; Micah 2:1; 1 Kings 1:47; Song of Solomon 3:1 +; ׳וְנָפַל לְמ Exodus 21:18 (E) he takes to his bed; נִדָּתָהּ׳מ Leviticus 15:26 (P; see below I. נדד); ׳מ as place of copulation Genesis 49:4 (poem in J), Isaiah 57:7,8 (twice in verse); Proverbs 7:17; as place of burial Isaiah 57:2; Ezekiel 32:25; 2 Chronicles 16:14 (see ׳מ Inscription Tabnit8 and perhaps Jewish inscription Cooke341).
2 act of lying:
a. in General, ׳חֲדַר מ chamber of lying down = bed-chamber, Exodus 7:28 (E), 2 Samuel 4:7; 2 Kings 6:12, בְּחַדְרֵי מִשְׁכָּֽבְךָ Ecclesiastes 10:20; הַצָּהֳרַיִם׳והוּא שֹׁכֵב אֵת מ 2 Samuel 4:5 his noon-day siesta; 2 Samuel 17:28 read perhaps ׳עַרְשׂת מ couches for lying down Klo Bu HPS Now, compare ᵐ5.
b. (from context) sexually: of woman יֹדַעַת (אִישׁ לְ) מִשְׁכַּבזָכָת Judges 21:11,12; Numbers 31:17,35 (P); of man שׁכב מִשְׁכְּבֵיאִשָּׁה Leviticus 18:22; Leviticus 20:13 (+ אֶתזָֿכָר sodomy; H); ׳דֹּדִים מ Ezekiel 23:17.
שׁכב (√ of following; Biblical Hebrew שָׁכַב, מִשְׁכָּב).
מִשְׁכָּב m. (from the root שָׁכַב) pl. ־ִים constr. ־ֵי Leviticus 18:22., and וֹת Psalms 149:5.
(1) a lying down, both for sleep (2 Samuel 4:5, מִשְׁכַּב הַצָּהֳרַיִם “sleep at noon”) and from sickness, Psalms 41:4. Specially concubitus, Leviticus 18:22, “thou shalt not lie with a male מִשְׁכְּבֵי־אִשָּׁה the lying with a woman,” i.e. as with a woman; Leviticus 20:13; Numbers 31:17, 18 Numbers 31:18, 35 Numbers 31:35.
(2) a couch, a bed, 2 Samuel 17:28 a bier, 2 Chronicles 16:14; Isaiah 57:2.