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Strong's #7901: shakab (pronounced shaw-kab')

a primitive root; to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose):--X at all, cast down, ((lover-))lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ

shâkab

1) to lie down

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to lie, lie down, lie on

1a2) to lodge

1a3) to lie (of sexual relations)

1a4) to lie down (in death)

1a5) to rest, relax (figuratively)

1b) (Niphal) to be lain with (sexually)

1c) (Pual) to be lain with (sexually)

1d) (Hiphil) to make to lie down

1e) (Hophal) to be laid

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 210 times:

2 Chronicles 21:1: "Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city"
2 Chronicles 26:2: "it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers."
2 Chronicles 26:23: "So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field"
2 Chronicles 27:9: "And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz"
2 Chronicles 28:27: "And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but"
2 Chronicles 32:33: "And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchers of the sons"
2 Chronicles 33:20: "So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son"
Job 3:13: "For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,"
Job 7:4: "When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full"
Job 7:21: "mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not"
Job 11:18: "there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety."
Job 14:12: "So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not"
Job 20:11: "His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust."
Job 21:26: " They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover"
Job 27:19: "The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not."
Job 30:17: "in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest."
Job 38:37: "the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,"
Job 40:21: " He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens."
Psalms 3:5: "I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained"
Psalms 4:8: "I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only"
Psalms 41:8: "disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more."
Psalms 57:4: "My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth"
Psalms 68:13: "Though ye have lain among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver,"
Psalms 88:5: "among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no"
Proverbs 3:24: "When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet."
Proverbs 3:24: "thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet."
Proverbs 6:9: "How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?"
Proverbs 6:10: "a little folding of the hands to sleep:"
Proverbs 6:22: "When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it"
Proverbs 23:34: "Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast."
Proverbs 23:34: "as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast."
Proverbs 24:33: "a little folding of the hands to sleep:"
Ecclesiastes 2:23: "yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity."
Ecclesiastes 4:11: "Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm"
Isaiah 14:8: "at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up"
Isaiah 14:18: "the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house."
Isaiah 43:17: "and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct,"
Isaiah 50:11: "This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow."
Isaiah 51:20: "Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net:"
Isaiah 56:10: "dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber."
Jeremiah 3:2: "and see where thou hast not been lain with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian"
Jeremiah 3:25: " We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God,"
Lamentations 2:21: "The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen"
Ezekiel 4:4: " Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity"
Ezekiel 4:4: "it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity."
Ezekiel 4:6: "And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side,"
Ezekiel 4:9: "of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred"
Ezekiel 23:8: "brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised"
Ezekiel 31:18: "of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with"
Ezekiel 32:19: "Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised."









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