mishkav · bed

What it means

mishkav (מִשְׁכַּב) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “bed”.

(Aramaic): where one lies down; also where one has dreams at night.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The bed where one rests; in Daniel, where dreams and visions come.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Daniel 2:28

  But there is an Elah in the heavens who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the last days. Your dream and the visions of your head on your bed are these:

• Daniel 2:29

  You, O king, your thoughts on your bed came up about what will be after this; and the one who reveals mysteries has made known to you what will be.

• Daniel 4:5

  I saw a dream, and it made me afraid; and the imaginings on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

• Daniel 4:10

  And these were the visions of my head on my bed: I was looking, and look, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.

• Daniel 4:13

  I was looking in the visions of my head on my bed, and look, a watcher, and a holy one, was coming down from the heavens.

• Daniel 7:1

  In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head on his bed; then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.