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Hebrew verb · H7911

שָׁכַח

shakachshaw-kakh'

to forget

102 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: shâkach

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7911is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 15 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 80
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7911

to mislay, i.e. to be oblivious of, from want of memory or attention

The King James renders it: [idiom] at all, (cause to) forget.

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

shakach is rendered "to forget". It stands 102 times in the Hebrew text, across fifteen books.

  • Thirty-three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 27:45until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
  • The Greek text spells it eighty different ways.

The first use

until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

Genesis 27:45וְשָׁכַח֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Thirty-three of the word's 102 uses are in Psalms.

The other 24 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • I have forgotten7
  • you forget7
  • I will forget5
  • you will forget5
  • it will be forgotten4
  • you have forgotten4
  • you should forget4
  • and they forgot3
  • they forgot3
  • they have forgotten3
  • they have forgotten me3
  • ¿ will she forget2

and 46 more, 102 uses in all

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.

שָׁכַבshakabto lie down: lay downUses212
שָׁכַןshakanto dwellUses129
שָׁכַםshakamto riseUses65
שָׁכֹלshakolbe bereavedUses23
שָׁכֵןshakenneighboringUses20
שָׁכַרshakarbe drunkUses19
שָׁכַךְshakakto subsideUses5
שָׁכֵחַshakeachforgetfulUses2
שָׁכָהshakahto lustUses1

The words it stands beside

All 102, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

80 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

  • שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃7
  • תִּשְׁכַּ֥ח4
  • שָׁכְח֖וּ3
  • תִּשְׁכַּ֖ח3
  • אֶשְׁכַּ֣ח2
  • אֶשְׁכַּ֥ח2
  • הֲתִשְׁכַּ֤ח2
  • וְיִשְׁכַּ֣ח2
  • וַֽיִּשְׁכְּח֖וּ2
  • שְׁכֵחֽוּנִי׃2
  • שָׁכַ֣חַתְּ2
  • תִּשְׁכָּ֑ח2

and 68 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular8HVqi2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular8HVqp1cs
  • verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular6HVqj2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural6HVqp3cp
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular4HVNi3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular4HVqi1cs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singular4HVqp2fs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular4HVqp3cp/Sp1bs
  • Hc/Vqw2ms3Hc/Vqw2ms
  • Hc/Vqw3mp3Hc/Vqw3mp
  • Hc/Vqq2ms2Hc/Vqq2ms
  • HC/Vqu3ms2HC/Vqu3ms

Genesis

three uses
  • until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

    Genesis 27:45

    • וְשָׁכַח֙veshakhachHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will forget
  • The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.

    Genesis 40:23

    • וַיִּשְׁכָּחֵֽהוּ׃ פvaiyishkachehuHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he forgot him
  • but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.

    Genesis 41:30

    • וְנִשְׁכַּ֥חvenishkachHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be forgotten

Deuteronomy

fourteen uses
  • Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.

    Deuteronomy 4:9

    • תִּשְׁכַּ֨חtishkachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you should forget
  • Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.

    Deuteronomy 4:23

    • תִּשְׁכְּחוּ֙tishkechuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you should forget
  • For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.

    Deuteronomy 4:31

    • יִשְׁכַּח֙yishkachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will forget
  • be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

    Deuteronomy 6:12

    • תִּשְׁכַּ֖חtishkachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you should forget
  • Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day.

    Deuteronomy 8:11

    • תִּשְׁכַּ֖חtishkachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you should forget
  • then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

    Deuteronomy 8:14

    • וְשָֽׁכַחְתָּ֙veshakhachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will forget
  • If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

    Deuteronomy 8:19

    • שָׁכֹ֤חַshakhoachverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to forget
    • תִּשְׁכַּח֙tishkachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will forget
  • Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.

    Deuteronomy 9:7

    • תִּשְׁכַּ֔חtishkachverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you forget
  • If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

    Deuteronomy 24:19

    • וְשָֽׁכַחְתָּ֧veshakhachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will forget
  • When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

    Deuteronomy 25:19

    • תִּשְׁכָּֽח׃ פtishkachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will forget
  • Then you shall declare in the presence of the LORD your God, “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not transgressed or forgotten Your commandments.

    Deuteronomy 26:13

    • שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃shakhachetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have forgotten
  • And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”

    Deuteronomy 31:21

    • תִשָּׁכַ֖חtishakhachverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be forgotten
  • You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

    Deuteronomy 32:18

    • וַתִּשְׁכַּ֖חvatishkachHc/Vqw2mstagged: and you forgot

Judges

one use
  • So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

    Judges 3:7

    • וַֽיִּשְׁכְּח֖וּvaiyishkechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they forgot

1 Samuel

two uses
  • And she made a vow, pleading, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever come over his head.”

    1 Samuel 1:11

    • תִשְׁכַּ֣חtishkachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will forget
  • But they forgot the LORD their God, and He sold them into the hand of Sisera the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them.

    1 Samuel 12:9

    • וַֽיִּשְׁכְּח֖וּvaiyishkechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they forgot

2 Kings

one use
  • Do not forget the covenant I have made with you. Do not worship other gods,

    2 Kings 17:38

    • תִשְׁכָּ֑חוּtishkachuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you must forget

Job

seven uses
  • Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.

    Job 8:13

    • שֹׁ֣כְחֵיshokhecheiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: forget
  • If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’

    Job 9:27

    • אֶשְׁכְּחָ֣הʾeshkechahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will forget
  • For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.

    Job 11:16

    • תִּשְׁכָּ֑חtishkachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will forget
  • My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.

    Job 19:14

    • שְׁכֵחֽוּנִי׃shekhechuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have forgotten me
  • The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.

    Job 24:20

    • יִשְׁכָּ֘חֵ֤הוּyishkachehuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it forgets him
  • Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.

    Job 28:4

    • הַֽנִּשְׁכָּחִ֥יםhanishkachimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the forgotten
  • She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.

    Job 39:15

    • וַ֭תִּשְׁכַּחvatishkachHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it has forgotten

Psalms

thirty-three uses
  • For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

    Psalms 9:12

    • שָׁ֝כַ֗חshakhachverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has forgotten
  • For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.

    Psalms 9:18

    • יִשָּׁכַ֣חyishakhachverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be forgotten
  • He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

    Psalms 10:11

    • שָׁ֣כַֽחshakhachverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has forgotten
  • Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.

    Psalms 10:12

    • תִּשְׁכַּ֥חtishkachverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you forget
  • How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

    Psalms 13:1

    • תִּשְׁכָּחֵ֣נִיtishkacheniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: will you forget me
  • I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

    Psalms 31:12

    • נִ֭שְׁכַּחְתִּיnishkachtiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have been forgotten
  • I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

    Psalms 42:9

    • שְׁכַ֫חְתָּ֥נִיshekhachtaniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: have you forgotten me
  • All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.

    Psalms 44:17

    • שְׁכַחֲנ֑וּךָshekhachanukhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: we had forgotten you
  • If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

    Psalms 44:20

    • שָׁ֭כַחְנוּshakhachnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we had forgotten
  • Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?

    Psalms 44:24

    • תִּשְׁכַּ֖חtishkachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: do you forget
  • Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,

    Psalms 45:10

    • וְשִׁכְחִ֥יveshikhchiconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and forget
  • Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

    Psalms 50:22

    • שֹׁכְחֵ֣יshokhecheiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: O forget
  • Do not kill them, or my people will forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

    Psalms 59:11

    • יִשְׁכְּח֬וּyishkechuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they should forget
  • Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.

    Psalms 74:19

    • תִּשְׁכַּ֥חtishkachverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you forget
  • Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.

    Psalms 74:23

    • תִּ֭שְׁכַּחtishkachverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you forget
  • Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah

    Psalms 77:9

    • הֲשָׁכַ֣חhashakhachquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ has he forgotten
  • that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.

    Psalms 78:7

    • יִ֭שְׁכְּחוּyishkechuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will forget
  • They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.

    Psalms 78:11

    • וַיִּשְׁכְּח֥וּvaiyishkechuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they forgot
  • My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

    Psalms 102:4

    • שָׁ֝כַ֗חְתִּיshakhachtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have forgotten
  • Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds—

    Psalms 103:2

    • תִּ֝שְׁכְּחִ֗יtishkechiverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you forget
  • Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.

    Psalms 106:13

    • שָׁכְח֣וּshakhechuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they forgot
  • They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

    Psalms 106:21

    • שָׁ֭כְחוּshakhchuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they forgot
  • I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

    Psalms 119:16

    • אֶשְׁכַּ֣חʾeshkachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will forget
  • Though the ropes of the wicked bind me, I do not forget Your law.

    Psalms 119:61

    • שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃shakhachetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have forgotten
  • Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

    Psalms 119:83

    • שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃shakhachetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have forgotten
  • I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.

    Psalms 119:93

    • אֶשְׁכַּ֣חʾeshkachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will forget
  • I constantly take my life in my hands, yet I do not forget Your law.

    Psalms 119:109

    • שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃shakhachetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I forget
  • My zeal has consumed me because my foes forget Your words.

    Psalms 119:139

    • שָׁכְח֖וּshakhechuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have forgotten
  • I am lowly and despised, but I do not forget Your precepts.

    Psalms 119:141

    • שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃shakhachetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have forgotten
  • Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.

    Psalms 119:153

    • שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃shakhachetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have forgotten
  • I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.

    Psalms 119:176

    • שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃shakhachetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have forgotten
  • If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.

    Psalms 137:5

    • אֶשְׁכָּחֵ֥ךְʾeshkachekhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: I will forget you
    • תִּשְׁכַּ֥חtishkachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: may it forget

Proverbs

five uses
  • who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

    Proverbs 2:17

    • שָׁכֵֽחָה׃shakhechahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she forgets
  • My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;

    Proverbs 3:1

    • תִּשְׁכָּ֑חtishkachverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you forget
  • Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn from them.

    Proverbs 4:5

    • תִּשְׁכַּ֥חtishkachverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you forget
  • lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.

    Proverbs 31:5

    • וְיִשְׁכַּ֣חveyishkachHC/Vqu3mstagged: and he may forget
  • Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

    Proverbs 31:7

    • וְיִשְׁכַּ֣חveyishkachHC/Vqu3mstagged: and he may forget

Ecclesiastes

three uses
  • For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!

    Ecclesiastes 2:16

    • נִשְׁכָּ֔חnishkachverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been forgotten
  • Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.

    Ecclesiastes 8:10

    • וְיִֽשְׁתַּכְּח֥וּveyishtakechuHC/Vtu3mptagged: and they may be forgotten
  • For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

    Ecclesiastes 9:5

    • נִשְׁכַּ֖חnishkachverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is forgotten

Isaiah

ten uses
  • For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—

    Isaiah 17:10

    • שָׁכַ֙חַתְּ֙shakhachatverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you have forgotten
  • At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

    Isaiah 23:15

    • וְנִשְׁכַּ֤חַתvenishkachatHc/VNq3fstagged: and forgotten
  • “Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”

    Isaiah 23:16

    • נִשְׁכָּחָ֑הnishkachahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singulartagged: forgotten
  • But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”

    Isaiah 49:14

    • שְׁכֵחָֽנִי׃shekhechaniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he has forgotten me
  • “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!

    Isaiah 49:15

    • הֲתִשְׁכַּ֤חhatishkachquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: ¿ will she forget
    • תִשְׁכַּ֔חְנָהtishkachnahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will forget
    • אֶשְׁכָּחֵֽךְ׃ʾeshkachekhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: I will forget you
  • But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?

    Isaiah 51:13

    • וַתִּשְׁכַּ֞חvatishkachHc/Vqw2mstagged: and you have forgotten
  • Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated. For you will forget the shame of your youth and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.

    Isaiah 54:4

    • תִּשְׁכָּ֔חִיtishkachiverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you will forget
  • Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth, and whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the former troubles will be forgotten and hidden from My sight.

    Isaiah 65:16

    • נִשְׁכְּח֗וּnishkechuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will be forgotten

Jeremiah

thirteen uses
  • Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.

    Jeremiah 2:32

    • הֲתִשְׁכַּ֤חhatishkachquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: ¿ will she forget
    • שְׁכֵח֔וּנִיshekhechuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have forgotten me
  • A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.

    Jeremiah 3:21

    • שָׁכְח֖וּshakhechuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have forgotten
  • This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.

    Jeremiah 13:25

    • שָׁכַ֣חַתְּshakhachatverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you have forgotten
  • Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.

    Jeremiah 18:15

    • שְׁכֵחֻ֥נִיshekhechuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have forgotten me
  • But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.

    Jeremiah 20:11

    • תִשָּׁכֵֽחַ׃tishakheachverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be forgotten
  • They suppose the dreams that they tell one another will make My people forget My name, just as their fathers forgot My name through the worship of Baal.

    Jeremiah 23:27

    • לְהַשְׁכִּ֤יחַlehashkiachpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make forget
    • שָׁכְח֧וּshakhechuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they forgot
  • And I will bring upon you everlasting shame and perpetual humiliation that will never be forgotten.”

    Jeremiah 23:40

    • תִשָּׁכֵֽחַ׃ סtishakheachverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be forgotten
  • All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.

    Jeremiah 30:14

    • שְׁכֵח֔וּךְshekhechukhverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: they have forgotten you
  • Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and of the kings of Judah and their wives, as well as the wickedness that you and your wives committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

    Jeremiah 44:9

    • הַֽשְׁכַחְתֶּם֩hashkhachtemquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: ¿ have you forgotten
  • They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

    Jeremiah 50:5

    • תִשָּׁכֵֽחַ׃ סtishakheachverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be forgotten
  • My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to roam the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.

    Jeremiah 50:6

    • שָׁכְח֖וּshakhechuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have forgotten

Lamentations

two uses
  • He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.

    Lamentations 2:6

    • שִׁכַּ֨חshikachverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has caused to be forgotten
  • Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?

    Lamentations 5:20

    • תִּשְׁכָּחֵ֔נוּtishkachenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: do you forget us

Ezekiel

two uses
  • In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.

    Ezekiel 22:12

    • שָׁכַ֔חַתְּshakhachatverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you have forgotten
  • Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and prostitution.’”

    Ezekiel 23:35

    • שָׁכַ֣חַתְּshakhachatverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you have forgotten

Hosea

five uses
  • I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.

    Hosea 2:13

    • שָׁכְחָ֖הshakhechahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she forgot
  • My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

    Hosea 4:6

    • וַתִּשְׁכַּח֙vatishkachHc/Vqw2mstagged: and you have forgotten
    • אֶשְׁכַּ֥חʾeshkachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will forget
  • Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

    Hosea 8:14

    • וַיִּשְׁכַּ֨חvaiyishkachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he has forgotten
  • When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.

    Hosea 13:6

    • שְׁכֵחֽוּנִי׃shekhechuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they forgot me

Amos

one use
  • The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.

    Amos 8:7

    • אֶשְׁכַּ֥חʾeshkachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will forget

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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.

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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.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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