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
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Genesis 47:30 וְשָֽׁכַבְתִּי֙ ve.sha.khav.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me
but when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.