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Judges 16:3
“And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.” (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
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּשְׁכַּ֣ב — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- 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.