Hebrew verb · H5533
סָכַן
sakansaw-kan'
to endanger; to impoverish
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çâkan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5533is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5533
properly, to cut, i.e. damage; also to grow (causatively, make) poor
The King James renders it: endanger, impoverish.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sakan is rendered "to endanger; to impoverish". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to endanger".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ecclesiastes 10:9The one who quarries stones may be injured by them, and he who splits logs endangers himself.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
The one who quarries stones may be injured by them, and he who splits logs endangers himself.
Ecclesiastes 10:9יִסָּ֥כֶן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's two uses is in Ecclesiastes.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to endanger, and to impoverish.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to endangerStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereEcclesiastes 10:9The one who quarries stones may be injured by them, and he who splits logs endangers himself. |
| to impoverishStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he will be endangered1
- the impoverished1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| סָכַךְ | sakak | to fence | Uses24 |
| סָכַן | sakan | be useful | Uses12 |
| סָכַל | sakal | be foolish | Uses8 |
| סָכַר | sakar | to stop | Uses3 |
| סָכַת | sakath | be silent | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַֽמְסֻכָּ֣ן1
- יִסָּ֥כֶן1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular1HTd/VPsmsa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNi3ms
Ecclesiastes
one use
The one who quarries stones may be injured by them, and he who splits logs endangers himself.
- יִסָּ֥כֶןyisakhenverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be endangered
Isaiah
one use
To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple?
- הַֽמְסֻכָּ֣ןhamsukanthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: the impoverished
The letters
Gematria 130· 780 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.