שָׁכֵן shakhen
Hebrew word for “neighboring” · Strong’s H7934 · used 20 times in 20 verses
Meaning
1) inhabitant, neighbour; 1a) inhabitant; 1b) neighbour
How it is translated
Glosses given for shakhen in context, with how often each is used:
- neighbors 13
- neighbor 3
- female neighbor 1
- female neighbors 1
- inhabitant 1
- inhabitants 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psalms | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Jeremiah | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Exodus | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ruth | 1 | 0.8 | |
| 2 Kings | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Proverbs | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Isaiah | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Hosea | 1 | 0.4 |
Chapters where it is used most
Psalms 79 (2), Jeremiah 49 (2), Exodus 3 (1), Exodus 12 (1), Deuteronomy 1 (1), Ruth 4 (1), 2 Kings 4 (1), Psalms 31 (1), Psalms 44 (1), Psalms 80 (1)
Forms
- לשׁכנינו 4
- שׁכן 4
- שׁכניך 2
- משׁכנתה 1
- ושׁכנו 1
- שׁכניו 1
- השׁכנות 1
- ולשׁכני 1
- לשׁכניו 1
- שׁכני 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shakhen more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- חֶרְפָּה cherpah “reproach” 5
- גּוּר gur “to sojourn” 4
- קֶלֶס qeles “derision” 2
- מַהְפֵּכָה mahpekhah “overthrow” 2
- לַעַג laag “derision” 2
- עֲמֹרָה amorah “Gomorrah” 2
- מָעַט maat “to diminish” 2
- סְדֹם sedom “Sodom” 2
- הָ ha “her” 3
- קָרֹב qarov “near” 2
- שׂוּם sum “to set” 3
- שָׁאַל shaal “to ask” 2
Key verses
The verses using shakhen that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Deuteronomy 1:7 — Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and…
- Psalms 31:11 — I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
- Psalms 44:13 — Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
- Psalms 79:4 — We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
- Psalms 79:12 — And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
- Psalms 89:41 — All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
- Proverbs 27:10 — Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near…
- Isaiah 33:24 — And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
- Jeremiah 6:21 — Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour…
- Jeremiah 12:14 — Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out…
- Jeremiah 50:40 — As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
- Hosea 10:5 — The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on…
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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.