שְׁכֹבֶת
shᵉkôbeth · H7903 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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to copulate, to have sex
Literally: to give lying down (to someone); hence: action by which humans have sexual intercourse with other humans or animals; used for unlawful sexual relations only
ExamplesLeviticus 18:20 ‘And you shall not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her.
Leviticus 18:23 ‘Also you shall not have sexual intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.
Leviticus 20:15 ‘If there is a man who has sexual intercourse with an animal, he must be put to death; you shall also kill the animal.
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
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- ךָyour 2
- הוּhis 2
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 4
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- κοίτη koítē · G2845 · bed, sexual activity, sexual life
- Greek κοίτη (koítē, G2845) serves as the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew שְׁכֹבֶת (shᵉkôbeth, H7903), both denoting the act of lying down with sexual connotation, with the Greek term encompassing the semantic range of cohabitation and seminal emission that the Hebrew idiom implies.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Copulate002003001004
- The noun for sexual intercourse, used throughout the purity and holiness laws against intercourse with a neighbor's wife (Leviticus 18:20), with an animal (Leviticus 18:23, 20:15), and against a wife's unfaithfulness (Numbers 5:20).
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7903. shekobeth [שְׁכֹ֫בֶת LagBN 179 BaNB 144] noun feminine copulation; — suffix, all…
[שְׁכֹ֫בֶת LagBN 179 BaNB 144]
noun feminine copulation; — suffix, all with ׃נָהַן אֶתשְֿׁכָבְתּוֺ וַיִּתֵּן Num 5:20 (P; בְּ feminine); לְזָ֑רַע שְׁכָבְתְּךָ תִתֵּן לֹא Lev 18:20 (אֶל feminine), שׁ תִתֵּן לֹא ׳בְּכָלבְּֿהֵמָה Leviticus 18:33, compare Lev 20:15 (all H).
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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