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Lexicon :: Strong's H4904 - miškāḇ

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מִשְׁכָּב
Transliteration
miškāḇ
Pronunciation
mish-kawb'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2381c

Strong’s Definitions

מִשְׁכָּב mishkâb, mish-kawb'; from H7901; a bed (figuratively, a bier); abstractly, sleep; by euphemism, carnal intercourse:—bed(-chamber), couch, lieth (lying) with.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 46x

The KJV translates Strong's H4904 in the following manner: bed (34x), bedchamber (with H2315) (4x), couch (1x), miscellaneous (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 46x
The KJV translates Strong's H4904 in the following manner: bed (34x), bedchamber (with H2315) (4x), couch (1x), miscellaneous (7x).

  1. a lying down, couch, bier, act of lying

    1. couch, bed

    2. act of lying, lying down or sleeping room, bedroom

    3. lying down (for sexual contact)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִשְׁכָּב mishkâb, mish-kawb'; from H7901; a bed (figuratively, a bier); abstractly, sleep; by euphemism, carnal intercourse:—bed(-chamber), couch, lieth (lying) with.
STRONGS H4904: Abbreviations
מִשְׁכָּב 46 noun masculineLeviticus 15:4 place of lying, couch; act of lying; — absolute מ׳ 1 Kings 1:47 +, construct מִשְׁכַּב 2 Samuel 4:5 +; suffix מִשְׁכָּבִי Job 7:13 +, מִשְׁכַּבְכֶם Psalm 4:5; plural construct מִשְׁכְּבֵי Genesis 49:4 +, suffix מִשְׁכְּבוֺהָם Hosea 7:14 +, etc.; —
1. couch, bed (37 times), 2 Samuel 4:11; Hosea 7:14; Micah 2:1; 1 Kings 1:47; Songs 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 Greek Version of the LXX.
b. (from context) sexually: of woman יֹדַעַת (אִישׁ לְ) מִשְׁכַּב זָכָת Judges 21:11, 12; Numbers 31:17, 35 (P); of man שׁכב מִשְׁכְּבֵי אִשָּׁה Leviticus 18:22; Leviticus 20:13 (+ אֶתזָֿכָר sodomy; H); דֹּדִים מ׳ Ezekiel 23:17.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

49:4; 49:4

Exodus

21:18

Leviticus

15:4; 15:26; 18:22; 20:13

Numbers

31:17; 31:35

Judges

21:11; 21:12

2 Samuel

4:5; 4:5; 4:7; 4:11; 17:28

1 Kings

1:47; 1:47

2 Kings

6:12

2 Chronicles

16:14

Job

7:13

Psalms

4:5

Proverbs

7:17

Ecclesiastes

10:20

Song of Songs

3:1

Isaiah

57:2; 57:7; 57:8

Ezekiel

23:17; 32:25

Hosea

7:14; 7:14

Micah

2:1

H4904

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4904 matches the Hebrew מִשְׁכָּב (miškāḇ),
which occurs 46 times in 44 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:4 - Turbulent as the waters, you will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father’s bed, onto my couch and defiled it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3 - The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18 - “If people quarrel and one person hits another with a stone or with their fist[fn] and the victim does not die but is confined to bed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:4 - “ ‘Any bed the man with a discharge lies on will be unclean, and anything he sits on will be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:5 - Anyone who touches his bed must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:21 - Anyone who touches her bed will be unclean; they must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:23 - Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, they will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:24 - “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26 - Any bed she lies on while her discharge continues will be unclean, as is her bed during her monthly period, and anything she sits on will be unclean, as during her period.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22 - “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:13 - “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:17 - Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:18 - but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:35 - and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:11 - “This is what you are to do,” they said. “Kill every male and every woman who is not a virgin.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12 - They found among the people living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had never slept with a man, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh in Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:5 - Now Rekab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out for the house of Ish-Bosheth, and they arrived there in the heat of the day while he was taking his noonday rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:7 - They had gone into the house while he was lying on the bed in his bedroom. After they stabbed and killed him, they cut off his head. Taking it with them, they traveled all night by way of the Arabah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:11 - How much more—when wicked men have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed—should I not now demand his blood from your hand and rid the earth of you!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2 - One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:13 - At David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did not go home.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:5 - “Go to bed and pretend to be ill,” Jonadab said. “When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘I would like my sister Tamar to come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I may watch her and then eat it from her hand.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:28 - brought bedding and bowls and articles of pottery. They also brought wheat and barley, flour and roasted grain, beans and lentils,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:47 - Also, the royal officials have come to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make Solomon’s name more famous than yours and his throne greater than yours!’ And the king bowed in worship on his bed

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:12 - “None of us, my lord the king,” said one of his officers, “but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:14 - They buried him in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bier covered with spices and various blended perfumes, and they made a huge fire in his honor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:13 - When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:15 - In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:19 - “Or someone may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in their bones,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:4 - Tremble and[fn] do not sin; when you are on your beds, search your hearts and be silent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4 - Even on their beds they plot evil; they commit themselves to a sinful course and do not reject what is wrong.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:3 - The LORD sustains them on their sickbed and restores them from their bed of illness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 149:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:5 - Let his faithful people rejoice in this honor and sing for joy on their beds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:17 - I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:27 - if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:20 - Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird in the sky may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:1 - All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:2 - Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:7 - You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill; there you went up to offer your sacrifices.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:8 - Behind your doors and your doorposts you have put your pagan symbols. Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed, you climbed into it and opened it wide; you made a pact with those whose beds you love, and you looked with lust on their naked bodies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:25 - A bed is made for her among the slain, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword. Because their terror had spread in the land of the living, they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are laid among the slain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:14 - They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They slash themselves,[fn] appealing to their gods for grain and new wine, but they turn away from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:1 - Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.
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