שָׁכַב (b. h.) to incline; to lie down, lie, sleep. Bekh. VII, 2, a. e. גביניו שׁוֹכְבִין, v. גְּבִין II. Gen. R. s. 96 (ref. to Gen. XLVII, 28 sq.) אתה שׁוֹכֵב ואין אתה מת thou shalt lie (in the grave) but not be dead (forever). Ber. I, 3 (ref. to Deut. VI, 9) בשעה … שׁוֹכְבִים וכ׳ (you must read the Sh’mʿa) at the time of the day when people lie down, and when people get up. Ib. 62ᵇ על כל משכב שְׁכַב וכ׳ lie on any couch, only not on the bare ground; a. v. fr.—Part. pass. שָׁכוּב. Mekh. B’shall., Vayassʿa, s. 3 תפלתם … שהיו שְׁכוּבִים בעפר the prayer of our fathers who were asleep in the ground; Yalk. Ex. 260 שוכבין.
Hif. - הִשְׁכִּיב 1) to cause to lie down. Ber. 60ᵇ (in a night prayer) שתַּשְׁכִּיבֵנִי לשלום וכ׳ that thou make me to lie down for peace and to rise for peace &c. Ber. 4ᵇ הַשְׁכִּיבֵנוּ (cause us to lie down,) hashkibenu, a section of the evening prayers, inserted between G’ullah and T’fillah (v. גְּאוּלָּה). Ib. 9ᵇ; a. fr. —2) to let lie with, to allow sodomy. Ker. 3ᵃ (ref. to Lev. XVIII, 22) קרי ביה לא תַשְׁכִּיב read it as lo thashkib, do not allow &c.; Snh. 54ᵇ לא תַשְׁכֵּב (or תִשָּׁכֵב Nif.); a. e.
Nif. - נִשְׁכַּב to be lain with, esp. to be the subject of sodomy. Ib. אזהרה לנִשְׁכָּב מנין whence do we derive the warning (אַזְהָרָה) for the person that allows sodomy? Ib. [read:] לר׳ ישמעאל אזהרה לנ׳ לבהמה וכ׳ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 200, a. Yalk. Lev. 599) according to R. Yishmael’s interpretation, whence do we derive the warning for the person that is made the subject of coupling with a beast? Ib. לא תִשָּׁכֵב, v. supra; a. fr.