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Hebrew verb · H8172

שָׁעַן

shaanshaw-an'

to lean

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

Concordance spelling: shâʻan

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8172is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 21
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H8172

to support one's self

The King James renders it: lean, lie, rely, rest (on, self), stay.

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

shaan is rendered "to lean". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Five of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 18:4Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-one different ways.

The first use

Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.

Genesis 18:4וְהִֽשָּׁעֲנ֖וּ

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

Where the word stands

The word stands in eleven of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 28 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

  • leaning2
  • they depend2
  • and because depending you1
  • and it leans1
  • and it will depend1
  • and let him depend1
  • and support yourself1
  • and when leaned they1
  • and you have depended1
  • because depending you1
  • he supports himself1
  • so he may support himself1

and 8 more, 22 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.

שָׁעָהshaahto gazeUses15
שָׁעַעshaato smearUses9
שָׁעָהshaahmomentUses5
שָׁעַרshaarto calculateUses1

All 22, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

21 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

  • נִשְׁעָ֣ן2
  • בְּהִשָּׁ֨עֶנְךָ֜1
  • וְאֶשָּׁעֵ֖ן1
  • וּבְהִשָּֽׁעֶנְךָ֥1
  • וּבְהִֽשָּׁעֲנָ֤ם1
  • וְהִֽשָּׁעֲנ֖וּ1
  • וְיִשָּׁעֵ֑ן1
  • וְיִשָּׁעֵ֖ן1
  • וְנִשְׁעַ֖ן1
  • וְנִשְׁעַ֗ן1
  • וַתִּֽשָּׁעֲנ֖וּ1
  • יִשָּׁעֵ֣ן1

and 9 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular4HVNrmsa
  • Hc/VNq3ms2Hc/VNq3ms
  • HC/VNu3ms2HC/VNu3ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVNi3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/R/VNcc/Sp2ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/R/VNcc/Sp3mp
  • HC/VNu1cs1HC/VNu1cs
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/VNv2mp
  • Hc/VNw2mp1Hc/VNw2mp
  • preposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/VNcc
  • preposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HR/VNcc/Sp2ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNi3ms

Genesis

one use
  • Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.

    Genesis 18:4

    • וְהִֽשָּׁעֲנ֖וּvehishaanuconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and support yourself

Numbers

one use
  • even the slopes of the wadis that extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”

    Numbers 21:15

    • וְנִשְׁעַ֖ןvenishanHc/VNq3mstagged: and it leans

Judges

one use
  • Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Lead me where I can feel the pillars supporting the temple, so I can lean against them.”

    Judges 16:26

    • וְאֶשָּׁעֵ֖ןveeshaenHC/VNu1cstagged: so I may lean

2 Samuel

one use
  • “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and the cavalry closing in on him.

    2 Samuel 1:6

    • נִשְׁעָ֣ןnishanverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: leaning

2 Kings

three uses
  • Yet may the LORD forgive your servant this one thing: When my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my arm, and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD forgive your servant in this matter.”

    2 Kings 5:18

    • נִשְׁעָ֣ןnishanverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: supporting himself
  • But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”

    2 Kings 7:2

    • נִשְׁעָ֨ןnishanverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: was leaning
  • Now the king had appointed the officer on whose arm he leaned to be in charge of the gate, but the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king had come to him.

    2 Kings 7:17

    • נִשְׁעָ֤ןnishanverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: leaning

2 Chronicles

five uses
  • Thus the Israelites were subdued at that time, and the men of Judah prevailed because they relied on the LORD, the God of their fathers.

    2 Chronicles 13:18

    • נִשְׁעֲנ֔וּnishanuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they depended
  • Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal prevail against You.”

    2 Chronicles 14:11

    • נִשְׁעַ֔נּוּnishanuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we depend
  • At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.

    2 Chronicles 16:7

    • בְּהִשָּׁ֨עֶנְךָ֜behishaenkhapreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: because depending you
    • נִשְׁעַ֙נְתָּ֙nishantaverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you depended
  • Were not the Cushites and Libyans a vast army with many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand.

    2 Chronicles 16:8

    • וּבְהִשָּֽׁעֶנְךָ֥uvehishaenkhaconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and because depending you

Job

two uses
  • He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.

    Job 8:15

    • יִשָּׁעֵ֣ןyishaenverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he supports himself
  • He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.

    Job 24:23

    • וְיִשָּׁעֵ֑ןveyishaenHC/VNu3mstagged: so he may support himself

Proverbs

one use
  • Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;

    Proverbs 3:5

    • תִּשָּׁעֵֽן׃tishaenverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you depend

Isaiah

five uses
  • On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

    Isaiah 10:20

    • לְהִשָּׁעֵ֖ןlehishaenpreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to depend
    • וְנִשְׁעַ֗ןvenishanHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will depend
  • Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,

    Isaiah 30:12

    • וַתִּֽשָּׁעֲנ֖וּvatishaanuHc/VNw2mptagged: and you have depended
  • Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.

    Isaiah 31:1

    • יִשָּׁעֵ֑נוּyishaenuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they depend
  • Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.

    Isaiah 50:10

    • וְיִשָּׁעֵ֖ןveyishaenHC/VNu3mstagged: and let him depend

Ezekiel

one use
  • When Israel took hold of you with their hands, you splintered, tearing all their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke, and their backs were wrenched.

    Ezekiel 29:7

    • וּבְהִֽשָּׁעֲנָ֤םuvehishaanamconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and when leaned they

Micah

one use
  • Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”

    Micah 3:11

    • יִשָּׁעֵ֣נוּyishaenuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they depend

The letters

Gematria 420· 1,070 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.

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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