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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 - Unstable as water, thou art not abundant; For thou hast gone up thy father's bed; Then thou hast polluted: My couch he went up!

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3 - and the River hath teemed with frogs, and they have gone up and gone into thy house, and into the inner-chamber of thy bed, and on thy couch, and into the house of thy servants, and among thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18 - 'And when men contend, and a man hath smitten his neighbour with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but hath fallen on the bed;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:4 - 'All the bed on which he lieth who hath the issue is unclean, and all the vessel on which he sitteth is unclean;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:5 - and any one who cometh against his bed doth wash his garments, and hath bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:21 - and any one who is coming against her bed doth wash his garments, and hath bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:23 - 'And if it is on the bed, or on the vessel on which she is sitting, in his coming against it, he is unclean till the evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:24 - 'And if a man really lie with her, and her separation is on him, then he hath been unclean seven days, and all the bed on which he lieth is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26 - 'All the bed on which she lieth all the days of her issue is as the bed of her separation to her, and all the vessel on which she sitteth is unclean as the uncleanness of her separation;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22 - 'And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it is.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:13 - 'And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood is on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:17 - 'And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:18 - and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:35 - and of human beings -- of the women who have not known the lying of a male -- all the persons are two and thirty thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:11 - And this is the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12 - And they find out of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who have not known man by the lying of a male, and they bring them in unto the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:5 - And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, go, and come in at the heat of the day unto the house of Ish-Bosheth, and he is lying down -- the lying down of noon;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:7 - yea, they come in to the house, and he is lying on his bed, in the inner part of his bed-chamber, and they smite him, and put him to death, and turn aside his head, and they take his head, and go the way of the plain all the night,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:11 - Also -- when wicked men have slain the righteous man in his own house, on his bed; and now, do not I require his blood of your hand, and have taken you away from the earth?'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2 - and it cometh to pass, at evening-time, that David riseth from off his couch, and walketh up and down on the roof of the king's house, and seeth from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman is of very good appearance,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:13 - and David calleth for him, and he eateth before him, and drinketh, and he causeth him to drink, and he goeth out in the evening to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, and unto his house he hath not gone down.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:5 - And Jonadab saith to him, 'Lie down on thy couch, and feign thyself sick, and thy father hath come in to see thee, and thou hast said unto him, 'Let, I pray thee, Tamar my sister come in and give me bread to eat; and she hath made the food before mine eyes so that I see it, and have eaten from her hand.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:28 - couch, and basin, and earthen vessel, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and roasted corn, and beans, and lentiles, and roasted pulse,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:47 - and also the servants of the king have come into bless our lord king David, saying, Thy God doth make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and his throne greater than thy throne; and the king boweth himself on the bed,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:12 - And one of his servants saith, 'Nay, my lord, O king, for Elisha the prophet, who is in Israel, declareth to the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in the inner part of thy bed-chamber.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:14 - and they bury him in one of his graves, that he had prepared for himself in the city of David, and they cause him to lie on a bed that one hath filled with spices, and divers kinds of mixtures, with perfumed work; and they burn for him a burning -- very great.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:13 - When I said, 'My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:15 - In a dream -- a vision of night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:19 - And he hath been reproved With pain on his bed, And the strife of his bones is enduring.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:4 - 'Tremble ye, and do not sin;' Say ye thus in your heart on your bed, And be ye silent. Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4 - Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:3 - Jehovah supporteth on a couch of sickness, All his bed Thou hast turned in his weakness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 149:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:5 - Exult do saints in honour, They sing aloud on their beds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:17

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:27 - If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:20 - Even in thy mind a king revile not, And in the inner parts of thy bed-chamber Revile not the rich: For a fowl of the heavens causeth the voice to go, And a possessor of wings declareth the word.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:1 - On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:2 - He entereth into peace, they rest on their beds, Each is going straightforward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:7 - On a mountain, high and exalted, Thou hast set thy couch, Also thither thou hast gone up to make a sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:8 - And behind the door, and the post, Thou hast set up thy memorial, For from Me thou hast removed, and goest up, Thou hast enlarged thy couch, And dost covenant for thyself among them, Thou hast loved their couch, the station thou sawest,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - And come in unto her do sons of Babylon, To the bed of loves, And they defile her with their whoredoms, And she is defiled with them, And her soul is alienated from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:25 - In the midst of the wounded they have appointed a bed for her with all her multitude, Round about him are her graves, All of them uncircumcised, pierced of the sword, For their terror was given in the land of the living, And they bear their shame with those going down to the pit, In the midst of the pierced he hath been put.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:14 - And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:1 - Wo to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.
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