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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 - You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father's bed, then you defiled it - he got on my couch!

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3 - The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up and go into your house, in your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading troughs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18 - "If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in 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 any furniture 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 his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:21 - Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:23 - If there is something on the bed or on the furniture she sits on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:24 - and if a man actually has sexual intercourse with her so that her menstrual impurity touches him, then he will be unclean seven days and 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 all the days of her discharge will be to her like the bed of her menstruation, any furniture she sits on will be unclean like the impurity of her menstruation,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22 - You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it is a detestable act.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:13 - If a man has sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:17 - Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:18 - But all the young women who have not had sexual intercourse with a man will be yours.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:35

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:11 - Do this: exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has had sexual relations with a male. But spare the lives of any virgins." So they did as instructed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12 - They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins - they had never had sexual relations with a male. They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:5 - Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite - Recab and Baanah - went at the hottest part of the day to the home of Ish-bosheth, as he was enjoying his midday rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:7 - They had entered the house while Ish-bosheth was resting on his bed in his bedroom. They mortally wounded him and then cut off his head. Taking his head, they traveled on the way of the Arabah all that night.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:11 - Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth?"

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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 his palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. Now this woman was very attractive.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:13 - Then David summoned him. He ate and drank with him, and got him drunk. But in the evening he went out to sleep on his bed with the servants of his lord; he did not go down to his own house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:5 - Jonadab replied to him, "Lie down on your bed and pretend to be sick. When your father comes in to see you, say to him, 'Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can fix some food for me. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I can watch. Then I will eat from her hand.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:28 - brought bedding, basins, and pottery utensils. They also brought food for David and all who were with him, including wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:47 - The king's servants have even come to congratulate our master King David, saying, 'May your God make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!' Then the king leaned on the bed

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:12 - One of his advisers said, "No, my master, O king. The prophet Elisha who lives in Israel keeps telling the king of Israel the things you say in your bedroom."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:14 - He was buried in the tomb he had carved out in the City of David. They laid him to rest on a bier covered with spices and assorted mixtures of ointments. They made a huge bonfire to honor him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:13 - If I say, "My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,"

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:19 - Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:4 - Tremble with fear and do not sin! Meditate as you lie in bed, and repent of your ways! (Selah)

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4 - He plans ways to sin while he lies in bed; he is committed to a sinful lifestyle; he does not reject what is evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:3 - The LORD supports him on his sickbed; you completely heal him from his illness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 149:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:5 - Let the godly rejoice because of their vindication! Let them shout for joy upon 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 do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:20 - Do not curse a king even in your thoughts, and do not curse the rich while in your bedroom; for a bird might report what you are thinking, or some winged creature might repeat your words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:1 - All night long on my bed I longed for my lover. I longed for him but he never appeared.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:2 - Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:7 - On every high, elevated hill you prepare your bed; you go up there to offer sacrifices.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:8 - Behind the door and doorpost you put your symbols. Indeed, you depart from me and go up and invite them into bed with you. You purchase favors from them, you love their bed, and gaze longingly on their genitals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - The Babylonians crawled into bed with her. They defiled her with their lust; after she was defiled by them, she became disgusted with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:25 - Among the dead they have made a bed for her, along with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for their terror had spread in the land of the living. They bear their shame along with those who descend to the pit; they are placed among the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:14 - They do not pray to me, but howl in distress on their beds; They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:1 - Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.
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