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H4904 מִשְׁכָּב (mishkâb) mish-kawb'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

from 7901; a bed (figuratively, a bier); abstractly, sleep; by euphemism, carnal intercourse

KJV Usage: bed((-chamber)), couch, lieth (lying) with

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

מִשְׁכָּב (mish.kav) — bed. 1) a lying down, couch, bier, act of lying 1a) couch, bed 1b) act of lying, lying down or sleeping room, bedroom 1c) lying down (for sexual contact) Aramaic equivalent: mish.kav (מִשְׁכַּב "bed" H4903)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun m · שׁכב

Stance

Collocation: שׁכב מִשְׁכָּב

rest = state in which humans are lying down to rest

2SA 4:5

Copulate

lying (with) > having sex with literally: lying down (with someone); hence: = action by which two people have sexual intercourse

LEV 18:22 · LEV 20:13 · NUM 31:17 · NUM 31:18 · NUM 31:35 · JDG 21:11 · JDG 21:12

Furnishings | ≈ יָצוּעַ

couch, bed = a low platform standing on four legs, a bit longer than the length of a man, and about 70–80 centimeters wide; ► used by people of means to sleep on

GEN 49:4 · EXO 7:28 · EXO 21:18 · LEV 15:4 · LEV 15:5 · LEV 15:21 · LEV 15:23 · LEV 15:24 · LEV 15:26 · LEV 15:26 · 2SA 4:7 · 2SA 4:11 · 2SA 11:2 · 2SA 11:13 · 2SA 13:5 · 2SA 17:28 · 1KI 1:47 · 2KI 6:12 · 2CH 16:14 · JOB 7:13 · JOB 33:15 · JOB 33:19 · PSA 4:5 · PSA 36:5 · PSA 41:4 · PSA 149:5 · PRO 7:17 · PRO 22:27 · ECC 10:20 · SNG 3:1 · ISA 57:2 · ISA 57:7 · ISA 57:8 · ISA 57:8 · EZK 23:17 · EZK 32:25 · HOS 7:14 · MIC 2:1

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מִשְׁכָּב 46 n.m. place of lying, couch; act of lying base

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