שָׁכַבshâkab
lie down
Pronunciation: shaw-kab' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7901
Meanings
Qal: construct (Genesis 26:10; Genesis 30:15; 1 Samuel 2:22)
1. lie down
b. to sleep (Genesis 19:4; Genesis 28:11; 1 Samuel 3:5)
c. lie on (עַל) one's side (Ezekiel 4:4; Ezekiel 4:6; Ezekiel 4:9)
d. lie, עַל person (1 Kings 3:19; 2 Kings 4:34)
e. lie down (2 Samuel 12:3; Micah 7:5; 1 Kings 1:2)
2. = lodge (for night) (Joshua 2:1; 2 Kings 4:11; 2 Kings 9:16)
3. of sexual relations, lie with (Genesis 30:15; Genesis 30:16; Genesis 39:7)
4.
a. lie down, in death (Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 43:17; Ezekiel 31:18)
b. especially in phrase עִם אֲבוֺתָיו ׳ שׁ lie down with his fathers (1 Kings 1:21; 1 Kings 2:10; Genesis 47:30)
c. in grave (Isaiah 14:18; Psalms 88:6; Job 7:21)
5. = relax (Job 30:17; Ecclesiastes 2:23)
Niph`al: = be lain with
Hiph`il: lay (1 Kings 3:20; 1 Kings 17:19; 2 Kings 4:21)
Hoph`al: laid (2 Kings 4:32; Ezekiel 32:32; Ezekiel 32:19)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 212 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 19:4 But before they retired for the night, all the men of Sodom, young and old, came from all over the city and surrounded the house.
- Genesis 19:32 Come, let’s get him drunk with wine, and then we will have sex with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father.”
- Genesis 19:33 So that night they got him drunk with wine, and the older daughter went in and had intercourse with her father. He was unaware of her lying down or getting up again.
- Genesis 19:34 The next morning the older daughter said to her younger sister, “I had sex with our father last night. Let’s get him drunk with wine again tonight, and you go in and have sex with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father.”
- Genesis 19:35 So that night they got him drunk with wine again, and the younger daughter went in and had intercourse with him. As before, he was unaware of her lying down or getting up again.
- Genesis 26:10 “How could you do this to us?” Abimelech exclaimed. “One of my people might easily have taken your wife and slept with her, and you would have made us guilty of great sin.”
See every passage
- Genesis 19:4, 19:32, 19:33, 19:34, 19:35, 26:10, 28:11, 28:13, 30:15, 30:16, 34:2, 34:7, 35:22, 39:7, 39:10, 39:12, 39:14, 47:30
- Exodus 22:16, 22:19, 22:27
- Leviticus 14:47, 15:4, 15:18, 15:20, 15:24, 15:26, 15:33, 18:22, 19:20, 20:11, 20:12, 20:13, 20:18, 20:20, 26:6
- Numbers 5:13, 5:19, 23:24, 24:9
- Deuteronomy 6:7, 11:19, 22:22, 22:23, 22:25, 22:28, 22:29, 24:12, 24:13, 27:20, 27:21, 27:22, 27:23, 28:30, 31:16
- Joshua 2:1, 2:8
- Judges 5:27, 16:3
- Ruth 3:4, 3:7, 3:8, 3:13, 3:14
- 1 Samuel 2:22, 3:2, 3:3, 3:5, 3:6, 3:9, 3:15, 26:5, 26:7
- 2 Samuel 4:5, 4:7, 7:12, 8:2, 11:4, 11:9, 11:11, 11:13, 12:3, 12:11, 12:16, 12:24, 13:5, 13:6, 13:8, 13:11, 13:14, 13:31
- 1 Kings 1:2, 1:21, 2:10, 3:19, 3:20, 11:21, 11:43, 14:20, 14:31, 15:8, 15:24, 16:6, 16:28, 17:19, 19:5, 19:6, 21:4, 21:27, 22:40, 22:50
- 2 Kings 4:11, 4:21, 4:32, 4:34, 8:24, 9:16, 10:35, 13:9, 13:13, 14:16, 14:22, 14:29, 15:7, 15:22, 15:38, 16:20, 20:21, 21:18, 24:6
- 2 Chronicles 9:31, 12:16, 14:1, 16:13, 16:14, 21:1, 26:2, 26:23, 27:9, 28:27, 32:33, 33:20
- Job 3:13, 7:4, 7:21, 11:18, 14:12, 20:11, 21:26, 27:19, 30:17, 38:37, 40:21
- Psalms 3:5, 4:8, 41:8, 57:4, 68:13, 88:5
- Proverbs 3:24, 6:9, 6:10, 6:22, 23:34, 24:33
- Ecclesiastes 2:23, 4:11
- Isaiah 13:16, 14:8, 14:18, 43:17, 50:11, 51:20, 56:10
- Jeremiah 3:2, 3:25
- Lamentations 2:21
- Ezekiel 4:4, 4:6, 4:9, 23:8, 31:18, 32:19, 32:21, 32:27, 32:28, 32:29, 32:30, 32:32
- Hosea 2:18
- Amos 6:4
- Jonah 1:5
- Micah 7:5
- Zechariah 14:2
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).