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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 - Boiling over as water, you shall not have the pre-eminence; Because you went up to your father's bed; Then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3 - and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into your house, and into your bedchamber, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading-troughs:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18 - "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:4 - "'Every bed whereon he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:5 - Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:21 - Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:23 - If it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:24 - "'If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lies shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26 - Every bed whereon she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period: and everything whereon she sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22 - "'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestible.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:13 - If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:17 - Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:18 - But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:35 - and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:11 - This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain by man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12 - They found among the inhabitants of Yavesh-Gil`ad four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Kana`an.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:5 - The sons of Rimmon the Be'erotite, Rechav and Ba`anah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-Boshet, as he took his rest at noon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:7 - Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the `Aravah all night.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:11 - How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the eretz?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2 - It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:13 - When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn't go down to his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:5 - Yehonadav said to him, Lay you down on your bed, and feign yourself sick: and when your father comes to see you, tell him, Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:28 - brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched grain, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:47 - Moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, Your God make the name of Shlomo better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne: and the king bowed himself on the bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:12 - One of his servants said, No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Yisra'el, tells the king of Yisra'el the words that you speak in your bedchamber.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:14 - They buried him in his own tombs, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers' are: and they made a very great burning for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:13 - When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall 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 men, In slumbering on the bed;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:19 - He is chastened also with pain on his bed, With continual strife in his bones;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:4 - Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4 - He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good; He doesn't abhor evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:3 - The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed, And restore him from his bed of illness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 149:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:5 - Let the holy ones rejoice in honor. Let them 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 don't have means to pay, Why should he take away your bed from under you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:20 - Don't revile the king, no, not in your thoughts; And don't revile the rich in your bedchamber: For a bird of the sky may carry your voice, And that which has wings may tell the matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:1 - By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:2 - He enters into shalom; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:7 - On a high and lofty mountain have you set your bed; there also you went up to offer sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:8 - Behind the doors and the posts have you set up your memorial: for you have uncovered yourself to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them: you loved their bed where you saw it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - The Bavlites came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:25 - They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are round about her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of those who are slain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:14 - They haven't cried to me with their heart, But they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:1 - Woe to those who devise iniquity And work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, Because it is in the power of their hand.
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