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Jeremiah 3:25
“We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H7901 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- [idiom] at all, cast down, (lover-)lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.
- Grammar
- נִשְׁכְּבָ֣ה — verb Qal, cohortative, 1st person, common, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 213 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 19:4Genesis 19:32Genesis 19:33Genesis 19:33Genesis 19:34
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שָׁכַב here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.