Copulation
שְׁכֹ֫בֶתStrong’s H7903shekhovet (she-kho-vet)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shekhovet is the Hebrew word usually translated “copulation your” and “copulation his”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.”
Meaning
- Copulation
How it's translated
- copulation your 2
- copulation his 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 3
- Numbers 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 18:23Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
- Leviticus 20:15And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
- Numbers 5:20But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁכֹ֫בֶת shekhovet · copulation
copulation
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “copulation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COPULATION, noun
[Latin]
The act of coupling; the embrace of the sexes in the act of generation; coition.
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.