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# מִשְׁכַּב

Biblical Aramaic

**couch** — used 6 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

couch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e9_5b0_5c1_5db_5b7_5bc_5d1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁכַּב²: couch, bed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e9_5b0_5c1_5db_5b7_5bc_5d1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] couch, bed;—sf. מִשְׁכְּבִי Dn 4:2, 7, 10; ךְ—ָ 2:28, 29; הּ—ֵ 7:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bed (6).

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.2/#tree)

חֵ֥לֶם חֲזֵ֖ית וִֽידַחֲלִנַּ֑נִי וְהַרְהֹרִין֙ עַֽל־מִשְׁכְּבִ֔י וְחֶזְוֵ֥י רֵאשִׁ֖י יְבַהֲלֻנַּֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* a.dream I.saw and it made.me.afraid and imaginings on bed my and the.visions of my.head they alarmed.me

*JPS 1917:* I saw a dream which made me afraid; and imaginings upon my bed and the visions of my head affrighted me.

[Daniel 4:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.10/#tree)

חָזֵ֥ה הֲוֵ֛ית בְּחֶזְוֵ֥י רֵאשִׁ֖י עַֽל־מִשְׁכְּבִ֑י וַאֲלוּ֙ עִ֣יר וְקַדִּ֔ישׁ מִן־שְׁמַיָּ֖א נָחִֽת׃

*Word for word:* seeing I.was in the.visions of my.head on bed my and lo! a.watcher and a.holy.\[one\] from the heavens \[was\].coming.down

*JPS 1917:* I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e9_5b0_5c1_5db_5b7_5bc_5d1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e9_5b0_5c1_5db_5b7_5bc_5d1/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).