H7934 - שָׁכֵן (shâkên)

H7934 שָׁכֵן (shâkên) shaw-kane'

Hebrew

Noun (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

neighboring

Strong's Definition

a resident; by extension, a fellow-citizen

Derivation: from H7931 (שָׁכַן);

KJV Usage: inhabitant, neighbour, nigh.

TWOT Reference: 2387b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) inhabitant, neighbour

1a) inhabitant

1b) neighbour

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1069 G1069 G3941 G4040

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) inhabitant, neighbour 1a) inhabitant 1b) neighbour

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

שָׁכֵן shâkên BDB Definition: 1) inhabitant, neighbour 1a) inhabitant 1b) neighbour Part of Speech: adjective A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H7931 Same Word by TWOT Number: 2387b Total KJV Occurrences: 21

Bible Occurrences (20)

3:22 12:4

1:7

4:17

4:3

31:11 44:13 79:4 79:12 80:6 89:41

27:10

33:24

6:21 12:14 49:10 49:18 50:40

16:26

10:5

Exodus 3:22

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 12:4

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 -.

Deuteronomy 1:7

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.

Ruth 4:17

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.

2 Kings 4:3

Go, said [Elisha], borrow empty jars from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.

Proverbs 27:10

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.

Isaiah 33:24

And no resident [of Zion] will say, I am sick. The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.

Jeremiah 6:21

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.