# H7901 שָׁכַב

שָׁכַב (shâkab), Strong’s H7901: to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose) KJV: [idiom] at all, cast down, (lover-)lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to……

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*shâkab* — to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)

KJV: [idiom] at all, cast down, (lover-)lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to…

Occurs 208 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שָׁכַב 212 vb. lie down
- Qal
- 1 lie down
- 2 = lodge (for night)
- 3 of sexual relations, lie with
- a lie down in death
- b esp. in phr. lie down with his fathers
- 5 fig. = relax
- Niph. Pu. = be lain with (sexually; subj. women), only as Qr for Kt [שָׁגֵל] Niph. Pu. q.v.
- Hiph. lay
- Hoph. laid

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 19:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=4) — But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the…
- [Genesis 19:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=32) — Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
- [Genesis 19:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=33) — They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when…
- [Genesis 19:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=34) — It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father…
- [Genesis 19:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=35) — They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down…
- [Genesis 26:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=10) — Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you…
- [Genesis 28:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=11) — He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the…
- [Genesis 28:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=13) — Behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, “I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will…
- [Genesis 30:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=15) — Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes…
- [Genesis 30:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=16) — Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have…