Lexicon :: Strong's H4904 - miškāḇ

“Turbulent as water, you will not excel,

because you got into your father’s bed

and you defiled it ​— ​he[fn] got into my bed.

“The Nile will swarm with frogs; they will come up and go into your palace, into your bedroom and on your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.

“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or his fist, and the injured man does not die but is confined to bed,

“Any bed the man with the discharge lies on will be unclean, and any furniture he sits on will be unclean.

“Everyone who touches her bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

“If discharge is on the bed or the furniture she was sitting on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening.

“Any bed she lies on during the days of her discharge will be like her bed during menstrual impurity; any furniture she sits on will be unclean as in her menstrual period.

“You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable.

“If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman, they have both committed a detestable act. They must be put to death; their death is their own fault.

“So now, kill every male among the dependents and kill every woman who has gone to bed with a man,

and 32,000 people, all the females who had not gone to bed with a man.

“This is what you should do: Completely destroy every male, as well as every woman who has gone to bed with a man.”

Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out and arrived at Ish-bosheth’s house during the heat of the day while the king was taking his midday nap.

They had entered the house while Ish-bosheth was lying on his bed in his bedroom and stabbed and killed him. They removed his head, took it, and traveled by way of the Arabah all night.

“How much more when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house on his own bed! So now, should I not require his blood from you and purge you from the earth? ”

One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing ​— ​a very beautiful woman.

Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and David got him drunk. He went out in the evening to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.

Jonadab said to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you’re sick. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare a meal in my presence so I can watch and eat from her hand.’ ”

brought beds, basins,[fn] and pottery items. They also brought wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,[fn]

“The king’s servants have also gone to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more well known than your name, and may he make his throne greater than your throne.’ Then the king bowed in worship on his bed.

One of his servants said, “No one, my lord the king. Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel even the words you speak in your bedroom.”

He was buried in his own tomb that he had made for himself in the city of David. They laid him out in a coffin that was full of spices and various mixtures of prepared ointments; then they made a great fire in his honor.

When I say, “My bed will comfort me,

and my couch will ease my complaint,”

In a dream, a vision in the night,

when deep sleep comes over people

as they slumber on their beds,

A person may be disciplined on his bed with pain

and constant distress in his bones,

Be angry[fn] and do not sin;

reflect in your heart while on your bed and be silent.Selah

Even on his bed he makes malicious plans.

He sets himself on a path that is not good,

and he does not reject evil.

The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed;

you will heal him on the bed where he lies.

Let the faithful celebrate in triumphal glory;

let them shout for joy on their beds.

“I’ve perfumed my bed

with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

If you have nothing with which to pay,

even your bed will be taken from under you.

Do not curse the king even in your thoughts,

and do not curse a rich person even in your bedroom,

for a bird of the sky may carry the message,

and a winged creature may report the matter.

In my bed at night[fn]

I sought the one I love;

I sought him, but did not find him.[fn]

He will enter into peace —

they will rest on their beds[fn] —

everyone who lives uprightly.

You have placed your bed

on a high and lofty mountain;

you also went up there to offer sacrifice.

“Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and defiled her with their lust. But after she was defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

“Among the slain

they prepare a bed for Elam

with all her hordes.

Her graves are all around her.

All of them are uncircumcised,

slain by the sword,

although their terror was once spread

in the land of the living.

They bear their disgrace

with those who descend to the Pit.

They are placed among the slain.

They do not cry to me from their hearts;

rather, they wail on their beds.

They slash themselves[fn] for grain and new wine;

they turn away from me.

Woe to those who dream up wickedness

and prepare evil plans on their beds!

At morning light they accomplish it

because the power is in their hands.