Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H7932
שְׁכַן
shekanshek-an'
to dwell
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shᵉkan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7932is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7932
{to reside or permanently stay (literally or figuratively)}
The King James renders it: cause to dwell, have habitation.
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
shekan is rendered "to dwell". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 6:12May God, who has caused His Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to alter this decree or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued the decree. Let it be carried out with diligence.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
May God, who has caused His Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to alter this decree or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued the decree. Let it be carried out with diligence.
Ezra 6:12שַׁכִּ֧ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he has caused to dwell1
- they dwelt1
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.
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
- יִשְׁכְּנָ֖ן1
- שַׁכִּ֧ן1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1AVpp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine plural1AVqi3fp
Ezra
one use
May God, who has caused His Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to alter this decree or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued the decree. Let it be carried out with diligence.
- שַׁכִּ֧ןshakinverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has caused to dwell
Daniel
one use
whose foliage was beautiful and whose fruit was abundant, providing food for all, under which the beasts of the field lived, and in whose branches the birds of the air nested—
- יִשְׁכְּנָ֖ןyishkenanverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they dwelt
The letters
Gematria 370· 1,020 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.