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Hebrew noun · H7934

שָׁכֵן

shakenshaw-kane'

neighboring

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

Concordance spelling: shâkên

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7934is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 17
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7934

a resident; by extension, a fellow-citizen

The King James renders it: inhabitant, neighbour, nigh.

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

shaken is rendered "neighboring". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 3:22Every woman shall ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”
  • The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.

The first use

Every woman shall ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”

Exodus 3:22מִשְּׁכֶנְתָּהּ֙

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

Where the word stands

Six of the word's twenty uses are in Psalms.

The other 29 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

  • to neighbors our4
  • a neighbor2
  • and neighbors its2
  • neighbors its2
  • neighbors your2
  • an inhabitant1
  • and neighbor his1
  • and to neighbors my1
  • from neighbor her1
  • inhabitant of1
  • neighbors my1
  • the neighbors1

and 1 more, 20 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
שָׁכַחshakachto forgetUses102
שָׁכַםshakamto riseUses65
שָׁכֹלshakolbe bereavedUses23
שָׁכַרshakarbe drunkUses19
שָׁכַךְshakakto subsideUses5
שָׁכֵחַshakeachforgetfulUses2
שָׁכָהshakahto lustUses1

All 20, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

17 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

  • לִשְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּ3
  • שָׁכֵ֥ן2
  • הַשְּׁכֵנ֥וֹת1
  • וְלִשֲׁכֵנַ֨י׀1
  • וּשְׁכֵנ֛וֹ1
  • וּשְׁכֵנֶ֖יהָ1
  • וּשְׁכֵנָ֖יו1
  • לִשְׁכֵנָֽיו׃1
  • לִשְׁכֵנֵ֣ינוּ1
  • מִשְּׁכֶנְתָּהּ֙1
  • שְׁכַ֣ן1
  • שָׁכֵ֖ן1

and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural4HR/Ncmpc/Sp1bp
  • noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular2HNcmpc/Sp2fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/Ncmpc/Sp3fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/R/Ncmpc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3fs
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3ms
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HR/Ncfsc/Sp3fs

Exodus

two uses
  • Every woman shall ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”

    Exodus 3:22

    • מִשְּׁכֶנְתָּהּ֙mishekhentahpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: from neighbor her
  • If the household is too small for a whole lamb, they are to share with the nearest neighbor based on the number of people, and apportion the lamb accordingly.

    Exodus 12:4

    • וּשְׁכֵנ֛וֹushekhenoconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and neighbor his

Deuteronomy

one use
  • Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.

    Deuteronomy 1:7

    • שְׁכֵנָיו֒shekhenavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: neighbors its

Ruth

one use
  • The neighbor women said, “A son has been born to Naomi,” and they named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse, the father of David.

    Ruth 4:17

    • הַשְּׁכֵנ֥וֹתhashekhenotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the neighbors

2 Kings

one use
  • “Go,” said Elisha, “borrow jars, even empty ones, from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.

    2 Kings 4:3

    • שְׁכֵנָ֑יִךְshikhnikhenoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: neighbors your

Psalms

six uses
  • Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends— they flee when they see me on the street.

    Psalms 31:11

    • וְלִשֲׁכֵנַ֨י׀velishakhenaiconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and to neighbors my
  • You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

    Psalms 44:13

    • לִשְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּlishkheneinupreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: to neighbors our
  • We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

    Psalms 79:4

    • לִשְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּlishkheneinupreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: to neighbors our
  • Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

    Psalms 79:12

    • לִשְׁכֵנֵ֣ינוּlishkheneinupreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: to neighbors our
  • You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

    Psalms 80:6

    • לִשְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּlishkheneinupreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: to neighbors our
  • All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

    Psalms 89:41

    • לִשְׁכֵנָֽיו׃lishkhenavpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to neighbors his

Proverbs

one use
  • Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

    Proverbs 27:10

    • שָׁכֵ֥ןshakhennoun · masculine singulartagged: a neighbor

Isaiah

one use
  • And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.

    Isaiah 33:24

    • שָׁכֵ֖ןshakhennoun · masculine singulartagged: an inhabitant

Jeremiah

five uses
  • Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; fathers and sons alike will be staggered; friends and neighbors will perish.”

    Jeremiah 6:21

    • שָׁכֵ֥ןshakhennoun · masculine singulartagged: a neighbor
  • This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.

    Jeremiah 12:14

    • שְׁכֵנַי֙shekhenainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: neighbors my
  • But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.

    Jeremiah 49:10

    • וּשְׁכֵנָ֖יוushekhenavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and neighbors its
  • As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

    Jeremiah 49:18

    • וּשְׁכֵנֶ֖יהָushekheneihaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and neighbors its
  • As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

    Jeremiah 50:40

    • שְׁכֵנֶ֖יהָshekheneihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: neighbors its

Ezekiel

one use
  • You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.

    Ezekiel 16:26

    • שְׁכֵנַ֖יִךְshekhenayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: neighbors your

Hosea

one use
  • The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn with its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced in its glory— for it has been taken from them into exile.

    Hosea 10:5

    • שְׁכַ֣ןshekhannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: inhabitant of

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

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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