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# שְׁכָבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7902

**lying** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lying [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7902/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁכָבָה: n.f. lying, layer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7902/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. act of lying, layer;—only cstr. שִׁכְבַת;— act of lying, as acc. cogn. c. שׁכב 3: שִׁכְבַת־זָ֑רַע Lv 15:18 (P) a man lies with her a lying of seed (in copulation), cf. 19:20 (H) Nu 5:13 (P); then (= semen), תֵּצֵא שִׁכְבַת־זָ֑רַע Lv 15:16, 32 (P) 22:4 (H) (+ מִמֶּנּוּ), שׁ׳ ז׳ alone 15:17 (P). layer of dew, שִׁכְבַת הַטָּ֑ל Ex 16:13, 14 (P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a laying (7); the layer (2).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 15:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.32/#tree)

זֹ֥את תּוֹרַ֖ת הַזָּ֑ב וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר תֵּצֵ֥א מִמֶּ֛נּוּ שִׁכְבַת־זֶ֖רַע לְטָמְאָה־בָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* this \[is\].the.legal.\[procedure\] of the.\[one\].discharging and \[the.one\].who it.will.go.out from him a.laying of.seed to be.unclean by it

*JPS 1917:* This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him from whom the flow of seed goeth out, so that he is unclean thereby;

[Leviticus 15:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.18/#tree)

וְאִשָּׁ֕ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִשְׁכַּ֥ב אִ֛ישׁ אֹתָ֖הּ שִׁכְבַת־זָ֑רַע וְרָחֲצ֣וּ בַמַּ֔יִם וְטָמְא֖וּ עַד־הָעָֽרֶב׃

*Word for word:* and a.woman whom he.will.lie a.man with her a.laying of.seed and they.will.wash with (the) water and they.will.be.unclean until the evening

*JPS 1917:* The woman also with whom a man shall lie carnally, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7902.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7902/): 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).