שָׁכַב
shâkab · shaw-kab'
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] at all, cast down, (lover-)lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the open hand that covers › the house, what is within
To consume, to destroy of the open hand that covers of the house, what is within.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׁכַב above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
212 occurrences · 212 OT · 0 NT · 134 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- slept36 · 31%
- lie9 · 8%
- and lay9 · 8%
- lay8 · 7%
- and laid6 · 5%
- be he that lieth4 · 3%
- shall lie4 · 3%
- to sleep3 · 3%
- and lie3 · 3%
- and lay down3 · 3%
- lie down3 · 3%
- her, and lay2 · 2%
- that thou shalt lie2 · 2%
- whereon he lieth2 · 2%
- and he lay2 · 2%
- not when she lay down2 · 2%
- ravished2 · 2%
- that lie2 · 2%
- they shall lie down2 · 2%
- was laid down2 · 2%
- that lay2 · 2%
- they lie2 · 2%
- he lay down2 · 2%
- that lieth2 · 2%
- but before they lay down1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.