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שָׁכַב (H7901)

shâkab

shaw-kab'

a primitive root; to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose); [idiom] at all, cast down, (lover-)lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

שָׁכַב 212 vb. lie down
Qal
1 lie down
2 = lodge (for night)
3 of sexual relations, lie with
4
a lie down in death
b esp. in phr. lie down with his fathers
5 fig. = relax
Niph. Pu. = be lain with (sexually; subj. women), only as Qr for Kt [שָׁגֵל] Niph. Pu. q.v.
Hiph. lay
Hoph. laid

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


194 occurrences

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  • 1 Kings 15:8
    And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
  • 1 Kings 15:24
    And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
  • 1 Kings 16:6
    So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
  • 1 Kings 16:28
    So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
  • 1 Kings 17:19
    And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
  • 1 Kings 19:5
    And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
  • 1 Kings 19:6
    And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
  • 1 Kings 21:4
    And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
  • 1 Kings 21:27
    And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
  • 1 Kings 22:40
    So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.