shechava · layer, emission

What it means

shechava (שְׁכָבָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “layer, emission”.

What is laid down: with "seed", an emission of semen. In Exodus 16:13-14, the layer of dew.

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. Dew spread over the ground.
2. A man's emission of semen, which under the law left him unclean until evening.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• emission ×7
• layer ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×6
• Numbers×1

• Exodus 16:13

  In the evening quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

• Exodus 16:14

  When the layer of dew had gone up, look, on the surface of the wilderness there was something fine, flaky, fine as frost on the ground.

• Leviticus 15:16

  And if a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe all his body in water and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:17

  And every garment and every skin on which there is an emission of semen shall be washed in water and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:18

  And a woman with whom a man lies with an emission of semen: they shall bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:32

  This is the instruction for the man with the discharge and for the one from whom an emission of semen goes out so that he becomes unclean by it,

• Leviticus 19:20

  And if a man lies with a woman with an emission of semen, and she is a slave woman promised to a man, but she has not been redeemed at all nor been given her freedom, there shall be punishment; they shall not be put to death, for she was not free.

• Leviticus 22:4

  No man of the offspring of Aaron who is leprous or has a discharge may eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything unclean by a dead person, or a man from whom an emission of semen goes out,

• Numbers 5:13

  and a man lies with her with emission of semen, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she has made herself unclean in secret, and there is no witness against her, and she has not been caught,