Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H7931: שָׁכַן (shâkan) Definition

Strong's number
H7931
Lemma
שָׁכַן
Transliteration
shâkan
Pronunciation
shaw-kan'
Strong's definition
to reside or permanently stay (literally or figuratively) abide, continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-er), have habitation, inhabit, lay, place, (cause to) remain, rest, set (up). a primitive root (apparently akin (by transmission) to H7901 (שָׁכַב) through the idea of lodging; compare H5531 (סִכְלוּת), H7925 (שָׁכַם));

124 instances of the word שָׁכַן shâkan (H7931)


  • Nahum 3:18 - slumber Thy shepherds O king of Assyria shall dwell thy nobles is scattered in the dust thy people upon the mountains and no man gathereth

  • Nehemiah 1:9 - But if ye turn unto me and keep my commandments and do them though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven yet will I gather them from thence and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name

  • Numbers 5:3 - Both male and female shall ye put without not their camps shall ye put them that they defile not their camps whereof I dwell in the midst

  • Numbers 9:17 - And when was taken up the cloud from the tabernacle then after journeyed that the children of Israel and in the place abode the cloud pitched their tents that the children of Israel

  • Numbers 9:18 - At the commandment of the LORD journeyed the children of Israel At the commandment of the LORD they pitched as long as abode the cloud upon the tabernacle they pitched

  • Numbers 9:22 - Or whether it were two days or a month Or whether it were two days tarried that the cloud upon the tabernacle remaining abode thereon the children of Israel in their tents and journeyed not but when it was taken up in their tents and journeyed

  • Numbers 10:12 - took And the children of Israel their journeys in the wilderness of Sinai rested and the cloud in the wilderness of Paran

  • Numbers 14:30 - Doubtless ye shall not come into the land concerning which I sware to make you dwell Doubtless ye shall not therein save Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun

  • Numbers 23:9 - For from the top of the rocks I see him and from the hills I behold him lo the people alone shall dwell among the nations and shall not be reckoned

  • Numbers 24:2 - lifted up And Balaam his eyes and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes and the spirit of God

  • Numbers 35:34 - Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit I dwell among for I the LORD I dwell among the children of Israel

  • Obadiah 1:3 - The pride in his heart hath deceived thee thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock is high thee thou that dwellest that saith in his heart Who shall bring me down to the ground

  • Proverbs 1:33 - But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely and shall be quiet from fear of evil

  • Proverbs 2:21 - For the upright shall dwell in the land and the perfect shall remain

  • Proverbs 7:11 - She is loud and stubborn not in her house abide her feet

  • Proverbs 8:12 - I wisdom dwell with prudence knowledge of witty inventions and find out

  • Proverbs 10:30 - The righteous shall never be removed but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth

  • Psalms 7:5 - persecute Let the enemy my soul and take it yea let him tread down upon the earth my life mine honour in the dust and lay Selah

  • Psalms 15:1 - LORD who shall abide in thy tabernacle who shall dwell hill in thy holy

  • Psalms 16:9 - is glad Therefore my heart rejoiceth and my glory my flesh also shall rest in hope