Word

שָׁאַן

shâʼan · H7599 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

to be at ease, to be secure

State in which humans live a peaceful life and have nothing to fear

Examples
Job 3:18 “The prisoners are at ease together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
Proverbs 1:33 “But whoever listens to me will live securely And will be at ease from the dread of evil.”
Jeremiah 30:10 ‘And do not fear, Jacob My servant,’ declares the LORD, ‘And do not be dismayed, Israel; For behold, I am going to save you from far away, And your descendants from the land of their captivity. And Jacob will return and be at peace, without anxiety, And no one will make him afraid.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

5 occurrences in 3 groups

Not stated: he, she or it 3
מוֹאָבMoab 1
אָסִירprisoner 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מִןfrom+ נָעוּרyouth 1
מִןfrom+ פַּחַדfear, dread, terror 1

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יַחַדtogether 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries

Safe002003003019: Job 3:18 describes "the prisoners are at ease together," and Jeremiah 30:10/46:27 promise Jacob will "return and be at peace... and secure, with no one making him afraid," both directly attesting the safety this word denotes.
Confident002001002003: Proverbs 1:33 promises "whoever listens to me will live securely and will be at ease from the dread of evil," attesting the untroubled confidence this word conveys.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

שָׁאַןshâʼan · H7599שַׁאֲנָן shaʼănân · H7600 · at ease, secure, complacent · 10×שַׁלְאֲנָן shalʼănân · H7946 · at ease, secure, complacent · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7599. shaan [שָׁאַן] verb Pa`lel (Ges§ 55d) be at ease or at peace, rest securely…

H7599. shaan
[שָׁאַן] verb Pa`lel (Ges§ 55d) be at ease or at peace, rest securely (Syriac pacify, Ethiopic peace); — Perfect3masculine singular שַׁאֲנַן Jer 48:11, ׳וְשׁ consecutive Jer 30:10 +; 3 plural שַׁאֲנָ֑נוּ Job 3:18; — be at ease, secure, undisturbed by ill fortune: מַחֲרִיד וְאֵין וְשׁ ׳וְשָׁקַט Jer 30:10 = Jer 46:27; Jer 48:(of Moab); ׳שׁ רָעָה מִמַּחַד Pro 1:33; of rest from trouble, etc., in grave Job 3:18.
שְׁאָן see שְׁאָן בֵּית. P. 112

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Safe5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0