שְׁחִין shechin
Hebrew word for “boil” · Strong’s H7822 · used 13 times in 12 verses
Meaning
1) boil, inflamed spot, inflammation, eruption; 1a) of man, leprosy, of man and beast
How it is translated
Glosses given for shechin in context, with how often each is used:
- boils 7
- boil 6
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Leviticus 13 (4), Exodus 9 (3), Deuteronomy 28 (2), 2 Kings 20 (1), Job 2 (1), Isaiah 38 (1)
Forms
- השׁחין 6
- בשׁחין 4
- שׁחין 2
- לשׁחין 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shechin more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- פָּרַח parach “to sprout” 3
- אֲבַעְבֻּעֹת avabuah “boil” 2
- רָפָא rapah “to heal” 3
- דְּבֵלָה develah “fig cake” 2
- בַּהֶרֶת boheret “bright spot” 2
- קׇדְקֹד qodqod “crown” 2
- יָכֹל yakhol “be able” 3
- לָבָן lavan “white” 2
- תְּאֵנָה teenah “fig” 2
- יְשַׁעְיָהוּ yeshayah “Isaiah” 2
- נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 3
- עָמַד amad “to stand” 3
Key verses
The verses using shechin that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Exodus 9:9 — And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of…
- Exodus 9:10 — And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon…
- Exodus 9:11 — And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.
- Leviticus 13:18 — The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
- Leviticus 13:19 — And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest;
- Leviticus 13:20 — And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it…
- Leviticus 13:23 — But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
- Deuteronomy 28:27 — The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
- Deuteronomy 28:35 — The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
- 2 Kings 20:7 — And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
- Job 2:7 — So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
- Isaiah 38:21 — For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
See all 12 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.