שָׁכֵן
shâkên · H7934 · Hebrew · 20 occurrences
Meanings
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neighbor
A person living in the direct vicinity of one's home
ExamplesExodus 12:4 ‘Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the number of persons in them; in proportion to what each one should eat, you are to divide the lamb.
Deuteronomy 1:7 ‘Turn and set out on your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Negev, by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
2 Kings 4:3 Then he said, “Go, borrow containers elsewhere for yourself, empty containers from all your neighbors—do not get too few.
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inhabitant
A person living in a certain town or area
ExamplesIsaiah 33:24 And no resident will say, “I am sick”; The people who live there will be forgiven their wrongdoing.
Hosea 10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria will fear For the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn for it, And its idolatrous priests will cry out over it, Over its glory, since it has left it.
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
16 occurrences in 7 groups
- הוּhis 4
- נוּour 4
- הּher 3
- יmy 2
- ךְyour 2
- נָגַעto touch 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- קָרוֹבnear 2
- רַעevil, bad 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בֵּןson 1
What it doesIt is the subject
6 occurrences in 6 groups
- גּוּרto sojourn 1
- לָקַחto take, to receive 1
- אָמַרto say 1
- אָבַדto perish, to destroy 1
- קָרָאto call, to cry out 1
- שָׁדַדto devastate, to destroy 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַהְפֵּכָהoverthrowing 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- טוֹבgood 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
9 occurrences in 4 groups
- לto/for 11
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
- אֵלto, toward 1
- מִןfrom 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַהְפֵּכָהoverthrowing 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 1 entry
- People001001003
- The noun for a neighbor or inhabitant, used throughout the instructions for the Israelites to plunder "her neighbor" among the Egyptians (Exodus 3:22), to share a Passover lamb with "his neighbor nearest to his house" (Exodus 12:4), of the peoples encountered as "neighbors" in the wilderness journey (Deuteronomy 1:7), the neighbor women who named Ruth's son (Ruth 4:17), and the woman told to borrow containers "from all your neighbors" (2 Kings 4:3).
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7934. shaken שָׁכֵן adjective inhabitant, neighbour; — ׳שׁ Isa 33:24 +; construct שְׁכַן…
שָׁכֵן adjective inhabitant, neighbour; — ׳שׁ Isa 33:24 +; construct שְׁכַן Hos 10:5; suffix שְׁכֵנוֺ Exo 12:4; שְׁכֵָנ֑יִכְי֯ 2Ki 4:3 etc.; feminine suffix שְׁכֶנְתָּהּ Exo 3:22; feminine plural שְׁכֵנוֺת Rth 4:17; —
1 inhabitant, Isa 33:24; Hos 10:5.
2 neighbour: woman Exo 3:22 (E); plural Rth 4:7; man Exo 12:4 (P) Jer 6:21; Pro 27:10, plural 2Ki 4:3; of places Deu 1:7; nations, to Judah Eze 16:26; Psa 79:12; לִשְׁכֵנֵי(נוּׅ חֶרְמָּה Psa 44:14; Psa 79:4, compare Psa 31:2; Psa 89:42; לשׁ ׳מָדוֺן Psa 80:7; to Edom Jer 49:10; to Sodom Jer 49:18; Jer 50:40; to ׳י Jer 11:4 (because to his people).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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