Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4904
מִשְׁכָּב
mishkabmish-kawb'
bed
46 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mishkâb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4904is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 18 of 39Old Testament books
- 38spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4904
a bed (figuratively, a bier); abstractly, sleep; by euphemism, carnal intercourse
The King James renders it: bed(-chamber), couch, lieth (lying) with.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mishkab is rendered "bed". It stands 46 times in the Hebrew text, across eighteen books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 49:4Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
- The Greek text spells it thirty-eight different ways.
The first use
Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
Genesis 49:4מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eighteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- bed your5
- the bed5
- bed his4
- beds their4
- lying of4
- bed my3
- lying down your3
- a bed2
- lyings of2
- to lying of2
- bed1
- bed their1
and 10 more, 46 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִשְׁפָּט | mishpat | justice: judgement | Uses422 |
| מִשְׁפָּחָה | mishpachah | family | Uses303 |
| מִשְׁכָּן | mishkan | tabernacle | Uses139 |
| מִשְׁמֶרֶת | mishmereth | charge | Uses78 |
| מִשְׁקָל | mishqal | weight | Uses49 |
| מִשְׁתֶּה | mishteh | feast | Uses46 |
| מִשְׁנֶה | mishneh | Second [Quarter] | Uses35 |
| מִשְׁחָה | mishchah | anointing | Uses26 |
| מִשְׁמָר | mishmar | custody | Uses22 |
| מִשְׂגָּב | misgab | high refuge | Uses17 |
| מִשְׁעֵנָה | mishenah | support | Uses12 |
| מִשְׁלוֹחַ | mishloach | sending | Uses10 |
and 30 more on the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 46, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
38 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מִשְׁכְּבוֹתָ֑ם3
- מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣י3
- לְמִשְׁכַּ֣ב2
- מִשְׁכַּ֣ב2
- מִשְׁכָּב֑וֹ2
- מִשְׁכָּבְךָ֖2
- בַּמִּשְׁכָּב֙1
- בְּמִשְׁכָּבָ֑הּ1
- בְּמִשְׁכָּב֑וֹ1
- בְּמִשְׁכָּבוֹ֙1
- הַמִּשְׁכָּ֗ב1
- הַמִּשְׁכָּ֜ב1
and 26 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular6HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular5HNcmsc/Sp2ms
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular5HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural4HNcfpc/Sp3mp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HR/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmpc
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular3HNcmsc/Sp1bs
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular2HNcmsc/Sp2fs
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp2mp
Genesis
one use
Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
- מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣יmishkeveinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beds of
Exodus
two uses
The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.
- מִשְׁכָּבְךָ֖mishkavekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: lying down your
If men are quarreling and one strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,
- לְמִשְׁכָּֽב׃lemishkavpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to a bed
Leviticus
nine uses
Any bed on which the man with the discharge lies will be unclean, and any furniture on which he sits will be unclean.
- הַמִּשְׁכָּ֗בhamishkavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bed
Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
- בְּמִשְׁכָּב֑וֹbemishkavopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: in bed his
and anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
- בְּמִשְׁכָּבָ֑הּbemishkavahpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: in bed her
And whether it is a bed or furniture on which she was sitting, whoever touches it will be unclean until evening.
- הַמִּשְׁכָּ֜בhamishkavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bed
If a man lies with her and her menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies will become unclean.
- הַמִּשְׁכָּ֛בhamishkavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bed
Any bed on which she lies or any furniture on which she sits during the days of her discharge will be unclean, like her bed during her menstrual period.
- הַמִּשְׁכָּ֞בhamishkavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bed
- כְּמִשְׁכַּ֥בkemishkavpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like bed of
You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
- מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣יmishkeveinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: lyings of
If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
- מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣יmishkeveinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: lyings of
Numbers
three uses
So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,
- לְמִשְׁכַּ֥בlemishkavpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to lying of
but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.
- מִשְׁכַּ֣בmishkavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: lying of
and 32,000 women who had not slept with a man.
- מִשְׁכַּ֣בmishkavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: lying of
Judges
two uses
This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”
- מִשְׁכַּב־mishkav-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: lying of
So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
- לְמִשְׁכַּ֣בlemishkavpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to lying of
2 Samuel
seven uses
Now Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out and arrived at the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, while the king was taking his midday nap.
- מִשְׁכַּ֥בmishkavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: lying of
They had entered the house while Ish-bosheth was lying on his bed, and having stabbed and killed him, they beheaded him, took his head, and traveled all night by way of the Arabah.
- מִשְׁכָּב֔וֹmishkavonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: lying down his
How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!”
- מִשְׁכָּב֑וֹmishkavonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: own bed his
One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
- מִשְׁכָּבוֹ֙mishkavonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: bed his
Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.
- בְּמִשְׁכָּבוֹ֙bemishkavopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: on bed his
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
- מִשְׁכָּבְךָ֖mishkavekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: bed your
They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,
- מִשְׁכָּ֤בmishkavnoun · masculine singulartagged: bed
1 Kings
one use
The king’s servants have also gone to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more famous than your own name, and may He make his throne greater than your throne.’ And the king has bowed in worship on his bed,
- הַמִּשְׁכָּֽב׃hamishkavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bed
2 Kings
one use
But one of his servants replied, “No one, my lord the king. For Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”
- מִשְׁכָּבֶֽךָ׃mishkavekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: lying down your
2 Chronicles
one use
And he was buried in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bier that was full of spices and various blended perfumes; then they made a great fire in his honor.
- בַּמִּשְׁכָּב֙bamishkavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the lying place
Job
three uses
When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
- מִשְׁכָּבִֽי׃mishkavinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: bed my
In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
- מִשְׁכָּֽב׃mishkavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a bed
A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
- מִשְׁכָּב֑וֹmishkavonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: bed his
Psalms
four uses
Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
- מִשְׁכַּבְכֶ֗םmishkavkhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: bed your
Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
- מִשְׁכָּ֫ב֥וֹmishkavonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: bed his
The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
- מִ֝שְׁכָּב֗וֹmishkavonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: bed his
Let the saints exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds.
- מִשְׁכְּבוֹתָֽם׃mishkevotamnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: beds their
Proverbs
two uses
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.
- מִשְׁכָּבִ֑יmishkavinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: bed my
If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
- מִ֝שְׁכָּבְךָ֗mishkavekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: bed your
Ecclesiastes
one use
Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich even in your bedroom, for a bird of the air may carry your words, and a winged creature may report your speech.
- מִשְׁכָּ֣בְךָ֔mishkavekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: lying down your
Song of Solomon
one use
On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
- מִשְׁכָּבִי֙mishkavinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: bed my
Isaiah
four uses
Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.
- מִשְׁכְּבוֹתָ֑םmishkevotamnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: beds their
On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.
- מִשְׁכָּבֵ֑ךְmishkavekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: bed your
Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness.
- מִשְׁכָּבֵךְ֙mishkavekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: bed your
- מִשְׁכָּבָ֖םmishkavamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: bed their
Ezekiel
two uses
Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.
- לְמִשְׁכַּ֣בlemishkavpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to a bed of
Among the slain they prepare a resting place for Elam with all her hordes, with her graves all around her. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, although their terror was once spread in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit. They are placed among the slain.
- מִשְׁכָּ֥בmishkavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a bed
Hosea
one use
They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.
- מִשְׁכְּבוֹתָ֑םmishkevotamnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: beds their
Micah
one use
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
- מִשְׁכְּבוֹתָ֑םmishkevotamnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: beds their
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
