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Strong's numbers

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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  • Job 30:17
    My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
  • Job 38:37
    Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
  • Job 40:21
    He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
  • Psalms 3:5
    I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
  • Psalms 4:8
    I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
  • Psalms 41:8
    An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
  • Psalms 57:4
    My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Psalms 68:13
    Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
  • Psalms 88:5
    Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
  • Proverbs 3:24
    When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.