שְׁכָבָה
shᵉkâbâh · H7902 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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layer of dew
A layer of dew covering the ground
ExamplesExodus 16:13 So it came about at evening that the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
Exodus 16:14 When the layer of dew evaporated, behold, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground.
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discharge of semen, emission of semen
Quantity of semen emitted by the human body spontaneously or during sexual intercourse
ExamplesLeviticus 15:16 ‘Now if a man has a seminal emission, he shall bathe all his body in water and be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:17 ‘As for any garment or any leather on which there is a seminal emission, it shall be washed with water and be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:18 ‘If a man sleeps with a woman so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
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to have sex
Literally: to lie with someone the lying of seed; hence: action by which humans have sexual intercourse with someone else, normally resulting in an emission of semen
ExamplesNumbers 5:13 and a man has sexual relations with her and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she remains undiscovered, although she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act,
How it’s used In 2 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
9 occurrences in 2 groups
- זֶרַעoffspring, seed 7
- טַלdew 2
What it doesIt is the subject
6 occurrences in 3 groups
- יָצָאto go out 3
- הָיָהto be, to become 2
- עָלָהto go up 1
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 1 word
- זִרְמָה zirmâh · H2231 · emission (of sperm)
- Both lexemes denote bodily emissions/discharges in a sexual/reproductive context (זִרְמָה "issue" refers to bodily discharge/fluid; שְׁכָבָה "copulation, seed" refers to seminal emission or the act/result of lying carnally). These are near-synonyms in the semantic space of sexual bodily products. The relationship is real and domain-appropriate.
In the other Testament 1 word
- κοίτη koítē · G2845 · bed, sexual activity, sexual life
- Greek κοίτη is the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew שְׁכָבָה, both denoting the act of lying down with sexual connotation (copulation/cohabitation) and by extension the seminal emission itself; the semantic overlap is nearly complete across both the euphemistic idiom for sexual intercourse and the technical sense of 'emission of seed.'
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Cover002003001005
- The noun's "layer" sense, used of the fine layer of dew and the flake-like substance covering the ground each morning in the wilderness (Exodus 16:13, 16:14).
- Body Products001003001002
- The noun's bodily-fluid sense, directly shown in the regulations for a man who "has a seminal emission" (Leviticus 15:16, 15:17, 15:18).
- Copulate002003001004
- The same noun used of sexual intercourse itself, directly shown in the case where "a man sleeps with a woman so that there is a seminal emission" (Leviticus 15:18).
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7902. shekabah [שְׁכָבָה] noun feminine act of lying, layer; — only construct שִׁכְבַת…
[שְׁכָבָה] noun feminine act of lying, layer; — only construct שִׁכְבַת all P; —
1 act of lying, as accusative of congnate meaning with verb with שׁכב
3: שִׁכְבַתזָֿ֑רַע Lev 15:18 a man lies with her a lying of seed (in copulation), compare Lev 19:20; Num 5:13; then ( = semen), שִׁכְבַתזָֿ֑רַע תֵּצֵא Lev 15:16, Lev 15:32; Lev 22:4 (+ מִמֶּנּוּ), ׳שׁ ׳ז alone Lev 15:17.
2 layer of dew, הַטָּ֑ל שִׁכְבַת Exo 16:13-14, (P).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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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