# מִשְׁכָּב (mishkav)

Israeli respelling: mish-kav. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4904. 44 Old Testament occurrences.

a bed (figuratively, a bier); abstractly, sleep; by euphemism, carnal intercourse

King James renderings: bed(-chamber), couch, lieth (lying) with.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/mishkav-h4904

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 49:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/49/4) — Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
- [Exodus 8:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/8/3) — And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, a…
- [Exodus 21:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/21/18) — And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
- [Leviticus 15:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/15/4) — Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.
- [Leviticus 15:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/15/5) — And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
- [Leviticus 15:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/15/21) — And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
- [Leviticus 15:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/15/23) — And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
- [Leviticus 15:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/15/24) — And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be…
- [Leviticus 15:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/15/26) — Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall…
- [Leviticus 18:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/18/22) — Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
- [Leviticus 20:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/20/13) — If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; th…
- [Numbers 31:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/17) — Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
- [Numbers 31:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/18) — But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
- [Numbers 31:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/35) — And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
- [Judges 21:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/11) — And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
- [Judges 21:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/12) — And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they bro…
- [2 Samuel 4:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/4/5) — And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a…
- [2 Samuel 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/4/7) — For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his he…
- [2 Samuel 4:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/4/11) — How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of…
- [2 Samuel 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/11/2) — And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof h…
- [2 Samuel 11:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/11/13) — And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the s…
- [2 Samuel 13:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/5) — And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray th…
- [2 Samuel 17:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/28) — Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pul…
- [1 Kings 1:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/47) — And moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his…
- [2 Kings 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/6/12) — And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that t…
- [2 Chronicles 16:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/16/14) — And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled wit…
- [Job 7:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/13) — When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
- [Job 33:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/15) — In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
- [Job 33:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/19) — He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
- [Psalms 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/4/4) — Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
- [Psalms 36:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/36/4) — He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
- [Psalms 41:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/41/3) — The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
- [Psalms 149:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/149/5) — Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
- [Proverbs 7:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/7/17) — I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
- [Proverbs 22:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/22/27) — If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
- [Ecclesiastes 10:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/10/20) — Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that…
- [Song of Solomon 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/3/1) — By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
- [Isaiah 57:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/2) — He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
- [Isaiah 57:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/7) — Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
- [Isaiah 57:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/8) — Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up;…
- [Ezekiel 23:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/17) — And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her min…
- [Ezekiel 32:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/25) — They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain…
- [Hosea 7:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/7/14) — And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they re…
- [Micah 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/2/1) — Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of…