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# שְׁכֹבֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7903

**copulation** — used 4 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

copulation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7903/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁכֹ֫בֶת: n.f. copulation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7903/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. copulation;—sf., all c. נָתַן: וַיִּתֵּן אֶת־שְׁכָבְתּוֹ Nu 5:20 (P; בְּ fem.); לֹא תִתֵּן שְׁכָבְתְּךָ לְזָ֑רַע Lv 18:20 (אֶל fem.), בְּכָל־בְּהֵמָה לֹא תִתֵּן שׁ׳ v 23, cf. 20:15 (all H).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: copulation (4).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 18:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.20/#tree)

וְאֶל־אֵ֙שֶׁת֙ עֲמִֽיתְךָ֔ לֹא־תִתֵּ֥ן שְׁכָבְתְּךָ֖ לְזָ֑רַע לְטָמְאָה־בָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and to the.wife your.fellow.citizen your not you.will.give copulation your for seed to be.unclean by her

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.

[Leviticus 20:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.20.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.20.15/#tree)

וְאִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִתֵּ֧ן שְׁכָבְתּ֛וֹ בִּבְהֵמָ֖ה מ֣וֹת יוּמָ֑ת וְאֶת־הַבְּהֵמָ֖ה תַּהֲרֹֽגוּ׃

*Word for word:* and a.man who he.will.give copulation his in an.animal surely.(die) he.will.be.put.to.death and (et) the animal you.will.kill

*JPS 1917:* And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7903.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7903/): 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).