שָׁכַב

sha.khav · to lie down: lay down

Hebrew · Strong's H7901 · Verb · Sounds like: shaw-kab' · 212 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to lie down: lay down H7901G 102
  • to lie down: have sex H7901I · a Meaning of 50
  • to lie down: be dead H7901J · a Meaning of 45
  • to lie down: sleep H7901H · a Meaning of 15

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose); [idiom] at all, cast down, (lover-)lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
שָׁכַב 212 vb. lie down
Qal
1. lie down
2. = lodge (for night)
3. of sexual relations, lie with
4.
a. lie down in death
b. esp. in phr. lie down with his fathers
5. fig. = relax
Niph. Pu. = be lain with (sexually; subj. women), only as Qr for Kt [שָׁגֵל] Niph. Pu. q.v.
Hiph. lay
Hoph. laid

Every occurrence

  1. 2 Chronicles 9:31 וַיִּשְׁכַּ֤ב vai.yish.Kav · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

  2. 2 Chronicles 12:16 וַיִּשְׁכַּ֤ב vai.yish.Kav · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

  3. 2 Chronicles 14:1 וַיִּשְׁכַּ֨ב vai.yish.Kav · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.

  4. 2 Chronicles 16:13 וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב vai.yish.Kav · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

  5. 2 Chronicles 16:14 וַיַּשְׁכִּיבֻ֗הוּ vai.yash.ki.Vu.hu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers' art: and they made a very great burning for him.

  6. 2 Chronicles 21:1 וַיִּשְׁכַּ֤ב vai.yish.Kav · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.

  7. 2 Chronicles 26:2 שְׁכַֽב־ she.khav- · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

  8. 2 Chronicles 26:23 וַיִּשְׁכַּ֨ב vai.yish.Kav · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

  9. 2 Chronicles 27:9 וַיִּשְׁכַּ֤ב vai.yish.Kav · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

  10. 2 Chronicles 28:27 וַיִּשְׁכַּ֨ב vai.yish.Kav · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem; for they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

  11. 2 Chronicles 32:33 וַיִּשְׁכַּ֨ב vai.yish.Kav · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

  12. 2 Chronicles 33:20 וַיִּשְׁכַּ֤ב vai.yish.Kav · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

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