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. Judges 5:27 שָׁכָ֑ב sha.Khav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; At her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

  2. Judges 16:3 וַיִּשְׁכַּ֣ב vai.yish.Kav · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.

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