שְׁכֹבֶתshᵉkôbeth
copulation (Numbers 5:20; Leviticus 18:20; Leviticus 18:33; Leviticus 20:15)
Pronunciation: shek-o'-beth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7903
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 18:20 “Do not defile yourself by having sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife.
- Leviticus 18:23 “A man must not defile himself by having sex with an animal. And a woman must not offer herself to a male animal to have intercourse with it. This is a perverse act.
- Leviticus 20:15 “If a man has sex with an animal, he must be put to death, and the animal must be killed.
- Numbers 5:20 But if you have gone astray by being unfaithful to your husband, and have defiled yourself by having sex with another man—’
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).