מִשְׁכָּב mishkav

Hebrew word for “bed” · Strong’s H4904 · used 46 times in 44 verses

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Meaning

1) a lying down, couch, bier, act of lying;

How it is translated

Glosses given for mishkav in context, with how often each is used:

• bed 25
• beds 6
• lying 6
• lying down 4
• lyings 2
• like the bed 1
• own bed 1
• lying place 1

Where it is used

Also in 6 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 15 (6), Numbers 31 (3), 2 Samuel 4 (3), Isaiah 57 (3), Judges 21 (2), 2 Samuel 11 (2), Job 33 (2), Genesis 49 (1), Exodus 8 (1), Exodus 21 (1)

Forms

• משׁכבך 7
• משׁכב 7
• משׁכבי 6
• משׁכבו 6
• המשׁכב 5
• למשׁכב 4
• משׁכבותם 4
• במשׁכבו 2
• במשׁכבה 1
• כמשׁכב 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with mishkav more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שָׁכַב shakhav “to lie down” 10
• זָכָר zakhar “male” 7
• טָמֵא tame “to defile” 6
• חֶדֶר cheder “chamber” 4
• עֶרֶב erev “evening” 5
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 7
• כְּלִי keli “article/utensil” 4
• רָחַץ rachats “to wash” 3
• יָדַע yada “to know” 5
• עֶרֶשׂ eres “bed” 2
• נָגַע naga “to touch” 3
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 5

Key verses

The verses using mishkav that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 15:5 — And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
• 2 Samuel 4:11 — How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take…
• 2 Samuel 11:2 — And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman…
• 2 Kings 6:12 — And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy…
• 2 Chronicles 16:14 — And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and…
• Job 33:15 — In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
• Job 33:19 — He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong
• Psalms 4:4 — Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
• Psalms 36:4 — He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
• Song of Solomon 3:1 — By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
• Hosea 7:14 — And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
• Micah 2:1 — Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.