מִשְׁכַּב
mishkab · H4903 · Aramaic · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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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
ExamplesDaniel 2:28 “However, there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the latter days. This was your dream and the visions in your mind while on your bed.
Daniel 2:29 “As for you, O king, while on your bed your thoughts turned to what would take place in the future; and He who reveals secrets has made known to you what will take place.
Daniel 4:5 “I saw a dream and it startled me; and these appearances as I lay on my bed and the visions in my mind kept alarming me.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
6 occurrences in 3 groups
- יmy 3
- ךָyour 2
- הוּhis 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חֵזֵוvision 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 8
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- עֶרֶשׂ ʻeres · H6210 · bed
- עֶרֶשׂ is a distinct Hebrew term for bed or couch, not cognate with שׁכב, and serves as a synonym for מִשְׁכַּב in contexts referring to furniture for lying down.
- יָצוּעַ yâtsûwaʻ · H3326 · couch, bed, to make one's bed in darkness
- יָצוּעַ refers to a bed or couch, a distinct lexeme from the שׁכב root family, and functions as a near synonym for מִשְׁכַּב in the sense of a place for lying down.
In the other Testament 2 words
- κλίνη klínē · G2825 · bed, couch, cot
- κλίνη is the standard Greek term for bed/couch, the natural translation equivalent for מִשְׁכַּב when referring to a piece of furniture for lying down or sleeping.
- κοίτη koítē · G2845 · bed, sexual activity, sexual life
- κοίτη refers to a bed or place of lying down, often with connotations of marriage bed or sexual lying; it is a translation equivalent for מִשְׁכַּב especially in contexts involving lying down or resting.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Furnishings001003001001008
- Daniel 2:28 has Daniel tell the king, “there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the latter days. This was your dream and the visions in your mind while on your bed.”
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4903. mishkab [מִשְׁכַּב] noun [masculine] couch, bed; — suffix מִשְׁכְּבִי Dan 4:2; Dan…
[מִשְׁכַּב] noun [masculine] couch, bed; — suffix מִשְׁכְּבִי Dan 4:2; Dan 4:7; Dan 4:10; ךְָ֯ Dan 2:28-29, הֵּ֯ Dan 7:1.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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