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Lexicon :: Strong's H4904 - miškāḇ

Aa
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 BoxGen 49:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:4 - But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3 - The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into your house and into your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and into your bread-basins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18 - If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:4 - Every bed on which he has been resting will be unclean, and everything on which he has been seated will be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:5 - And anyone touching his bed is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:21 - And anyone touching her bed will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:23 - Anyone touching anything on the bed or on the thing on which she has been seated, will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:24 - And if any man has sex relations with her so that her blood comes on him, he will be unclean for seven days and every bed on which he has been resting will be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26 - Every bed on which she has been resting will be unclean, as at the times when she normally has a flow of blood, and everything on which she has been seated will be unclean, in the same way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22 - You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:13 - And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:17 - So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:18 - But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:35 - And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:11 - And this is what you are to do: every male, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man, you are to put to the curse, but you are to keep safe the virgins. And they did so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12 - Now there were among the people of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had never had sex relations with a man; these they took to their tents in Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:5 - And Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, went out and came to the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, when he was resting in the middle of the day. Now the woman who kept the door was cleaning grain, and sleep overcame her.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:7 - And when they came into the house, Ish-bosheth was stretched on his bed in his bedroom; and they made an attack on him and put him to death, and, cutting off his head, they took it with them and went by the road through the Arabah all night.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:11 - How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2 - Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:13 - And when David sent for him, he took meat and drink with him, and David made him the worse for drink: and when evening came, he went to rest on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:5 - Then Jonadab said to him, Go to your bed, and let it seem that you are ill: and when your father comes to see you, say to him, Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread, and get the food ready before my eyes, so that I may see it and take it from her hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:28 - Came with beds and basins and pots, and grain and meal, and all sorts of dry foods,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:47 - And the king's servants came to our lord King David, blessing him and saying, May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and the seat of his authority greater than your seat; and the king was bent low in worship on his bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:12 - And one of them said, Not one of us, my lord king; but Elisha, the prophet in Israel, gives the king of Israel news of the words you say even in your bedroom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:14 - And they put him into the resting-place which he had made for himself in the town of David, in a bed full of sweet perfumes of all sorts of spices, made by the perfumer's art, and they made a great burning for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:13 - When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:15 - In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:19 - Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:4 - Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4 - He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:3 - The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:5 - Let the saints have joy and glory: let them give cries of joy on their beds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:17 - I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:27 - If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:20 - Say not a curse against the king, even in your thoughts; and even secretly say not a curse against the man of wealth; because a bird of the air will take the voice, and that which has wings will give news of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:1 - By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:2 - They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:7 - You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:8 - And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you had a desire for their bed where you saw it

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:25 - They have made a bed for her among the dead, and all her people are round about her resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death with the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: they have been given a place among those who have been put to the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:14 - And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:1 - A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
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