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title: שְׁכָבָה — lying · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁכָבָה (7902), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: lying. BDB 1906: n.f. lying, layer. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁכָבָה

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«שְׁכָבָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lying** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 9 times · **Key:** 7902 · **BDB:** שְׁכָבָה

### Glosses

a.laying (7); the.layer (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׁכָבָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7902/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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;

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

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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.

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