# H4904 מִשְׁכָּב

מִשְׁכָּב (mishkâb), Strong’s H4904: a bed (figuratively, a bier); abstractly, sleep; by euphemism, carnal intercourse KJV: bed(-chamber), couch, lieth (lying) with.. Occurs 46 times.

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

KJV: bed(-chamber), couch, lieth (lying) with.

Derived from [שָׁכַב shâkab](https://besorah.bible/word/H7901) (to lie down)

Occurs 46 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מִשְׁכָּב 46 n.m. place of lying, couch; act of lying

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 49:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=4) — Boiling over like water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to…
- [Exodus 7:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/7?v=28) — The river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and…
- [Exodus 21:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/21?v=18) — “If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;
- [Leviticus 15:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/15?v=4) — “‘Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean.
- [Leviticus 15:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/15?v=5) — Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- [Leviticus 15:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/15?v=21) — Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- [Leviticus 15:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/15?v=23) — If it is on the bed, or on anything she sits on, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
- [Leviticus 15:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/15?v=24) — “‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed he lies on…
- [Leviticus 15:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/15?v=26) — Every bed she lies on all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period. Everything she sits on…
- [Leviticus 18:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/18?v=22) — “‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.