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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. Proverbs 23:34 וּ֝כְשֹׁכֵ֗ב u.khe.sho.Khev · An -ing word: simple action

    Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

  2. Proverbs 24:33 לִשְׁכָּֽב׃ lish.Kav · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;

  3. Ecclesiastes 2:23 שָׁכַ֣ב sha.Khav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    For all his days are but sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

  4. Ecclesiastes 4:11 יִשְׁכְּב֥וּ yish.ke.Vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone?

  5. Isaiah 13:16 תִּשָּׁכַֽבְנָה׃ ti.sha.khab.nah · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.

  6. Isaiah 14:8 שָׁכַ֔בְתָּ sha.Khav.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid low, no hewer is come up against us.

  7. Isaiah 14:18 שָׁכְב֥וּ sha.khe.Vu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house.

  8. Isaiah 43:17 יִשְׁכְּבוּ֙ yish.ke.Vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    who bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched as a wick):

  9. Isaiah 50:11 תִּשְׁכָּבֽוּן׃ פ tish.ka.Vun · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk ye in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

  10. Isaiah 51:20 שָׁכְב֛וּ sha.khe.Vu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.

  11. Isaiah 56:10 שֹֽׁכְבִ֔ים sho.khe.Vim · An -ing word: simple action

    His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

  12. Jeremiah 3:2 שֻׁכַּ֔בְתְּ shu.kab.te · An action: strong action received, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

  13. Jeremiah 3:25 נִשְׁכְּבָ֣ה nish.ke.Vah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.

  14. Lamentations 2:21 שָׁכְב֨וּ sha.khe.Vu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; Thou hast slaughtered, and not pitied.

  15. Ezekiel 4:4 שְׁכַב֙ she.Khav · A command to you: simple action

    Moreover lie thou upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it; according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.

  16. Ezekiel 4:4 תִּשְׁכַּ֣ב tish.Kav · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Moreover lie thou upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it; according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.

  17. Ezekiel 4:6 וְשָׁ֨כַבְתָּ֜ ve.Sha.khav.ta · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by you

    And again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it unto thee.

  18. Ezekiel 4:9 שׁוֹכֵ֣ב sho.Khev · An -ing word: simple action

    Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof; according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, even three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat thereof.

  19. Ezekiel 23:8 שָׁכְב֣וּ sha.khe.Vu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    Neither hath she left her whoredoms since the days of Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their whoredom upon her.

  20. Ezekiel 31:18 תִּשְׁכַּב֙ tish.Kav · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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