מִשְׁכָּבmishkâb
place of lying, couch; act of lying
Pronunciation: mish-kawb' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4904
Meanings
1. couch, bed (2 Samuel 4:11; Hosea 7:14; Micah 2:1)
2. act of lying
a. in general (Exodus 7:28; 2 Samuel 4:7; 2 Kings 6:12)
b. (from context) sexually (Judges 21:11; Judges 21:12; Numbers 31:17)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 46 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 49:4 But you are as unruly as a flood, and you will be first no longer. For you went to bed with my wife; you defiled my marriage couch.
- Exodus 8:3 The Nile River will swarm with frogs. They will come up out of the river and into your palace, even into your bedroom and onto your bed! They will enter the houses of your officials and your people. They will even jump into your ovens and your kneading bowls.
- Exodus 21:18 “Now suppose two men quarrel, and one hits the other with a stone or fist, and the injured person does not die but is confined to bed.
- Leviticus 15:4 Any bed on which the man with the discharge lies and anything on which he sits will be ceremonially unclean.
- Leviticus 15:5 So if you touch the man’s bed, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening.
- Leviticus 15:21 If any of you touch her bed, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening.
See every passage
- Genesis 49:4
- Exodus 8:3, 21:18
- Leviticus 15:4, 15:5, 15:21, 15:23, 15:24, 15:26, 18:22, 20:13
- Numbers 31:17, 31:18, 31:35
- Judges 21:11, 21:12
- 2 Samuel 4:5, 4:7, 4:11, 11:2, 11:13, 13:5, 17:28
- 1 Kings 1:47
- 2 Kings 6:12
- 2 Chronicles 16:14
- Job 7:13, 33:15, 33:19
- Psalms 4:4, 36:4, 41:3, 149:5
- Proverbs 7:17, 22:27
- Ecclesiastes 10:20
- Song of Solomon 3:1
- Isaiah 57:2, 57:7, 57:8
- Ezekiel 23:17, 32:25
- Hosea 7:14
- Micah 2:1
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).