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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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  • Proverbs 6:9
    How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
  • Proverbs 6:10
    Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
  • Proverbs 6:22
    When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
  • Proverbs 23:34
    Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
  • Proverbs 24:33
    Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
  • Ecclesiastes 2:23
    For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
  • Ecclesiastes 4:11
    Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
  • Isaiah 13:16
    Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
  • Isaiah 14:8
    Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
  • Isaiah 14:18
    All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.