Hebrew noun (feminine) · H7902
שְׁכָבָה
shekabahshek-aw-baw'
semen
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shᵉkâbâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7902is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7902
a lying down (of dew, or for the sexual act)
The King James renders it: [idiom] carnally, copulation, [idiom] lay, seed.
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
shekabah is rendered "semen". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Six of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 16:13That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
Exodus 16:13שִׁכְבַ֣ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's nine uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a laying of7
- layer of2
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.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- שִׁכְבַת־7
- שִׁכְבַ֣ת2
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)9HNcfsc
Exodus
two uses
That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
- שִׁכְבַ֣תshikhvatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: layer of
When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground.
- שִׁכְבַ֣תshikhvatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: layer of
Leviticus
six uses
When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
- שִׁכְבַת־shikhvat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a laying of
Any clothing or leather on which there is an emission of semen must be washed with water, and it will remain unclean until evening.
- שִׁכְבַת־shikhvat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a laying of
If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.
- שִׁכְבַת־shikhvat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a laying of
This is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean,
- שִׁכְבַת־shikhvat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a laying of
If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
- שִׁכְבַת־shikhvat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a laying of
If a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man who has an emission of semen,
- שִׁכְבַת־shikhvat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a laying of
Numbers
one use
by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),
- שִׁכְבַת־shikhvat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a laying of
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 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.