Bed
מִשְׁכַּבStrong’s H4904mishkav (mish-kav)
Appears in 44 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mishkav is the Hebrew word usually translated “bed his”, “bed your” and “bed”. It appears in 44 verses of the Old Testament.
“Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.”
Meaning
- Couch, bed
How it's translated
- bed his 5
- bed your 5
- bed 4
- lying of 4
- beds their 4
- lying down your 3
- bed my 3
- the bed 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 8
- 2 Samuel 7
- Psalms 4
- Numbers 3
- Job 3
- Isaiah 3
18 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 8:3And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
- Exodus 21:18And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
- Leviticus 15:4Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 15:5And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 15:21And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 15:23And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
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Hebrew dictionary
מִשְׁכַּב mishkav · bed
couch, bed Aramaic of mish.kav (מִשְׁכָּב "bed" H4904)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BED, noun
[The sense is a lay or spread, from laying or setting.]
- A place or an article of furniture to sleep and take rest on; in modern times, and among civilized men, a sack or tick filled with feathers or wool; but a bed may be made of straw or any other materials.
- Lodging; a convenient place for sleep.
- Marriage; matrimonial connection.
- A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
All definitions and other forms of “bed”
- The channel of a river, or that part in which the water usually flows.
- Any hollow place, especially in the arts; a hollow place, in which any thing rests; as the bed of a mortar.
- A layer; a stratum; an extended mass of any thing, whether upon the earth or within it; as a bed of sulphur; a bed of sand or clay.
- Pain, torment. Revelation 2:22Isaiah 57:7Hebrews 13:4
BED, verb transitive
To place in a bed
- To go to bed with. [Unusual.]
- To make partaker of the bed
- To plant and inclose or cover; to set or lay and inclose; as, to bed the roots of a plant in soft mold.
- To lay in any hollow place, surrounded or inclosed; as to bed a stone.
- To lay in a place of rest or security, covered, surrounded or inclosed; as a fish bedded in sand, or under a bank.
- To lay in a stratum; to stratify; to lay in order or flat; as bedded clay, bedded hairs
BED, verb transitive
To cohabit; to use the same bed
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.