1. שָׁכַן
settle down, abide, dwell
The corpus record — Hebrew
וַיַּשְׁכֵּן֩
shakan · vb
settle down, abide, dwell
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 129 · 4.2/10k
Senses
2. שָׁכַן
to reside or permanently stay (literally or figuratively)
Attestations
- וַ/יַּשְׁכֵּן֩ Genesis 3:24 (BHS)
- וְ/יִשְׁכֹּ֖ן Genesis 9:27 (BHS)
- שֹׁכֵ֨ן Genesis 14:13 (BHS)
- יִשְׁכֹּֽן Genesis 16:12 (BHS)
- וַ/יִּשְׁכְּנ֨וּ Genesis 25:18 (BHS)
- שְׁכֹ֣ן Genesis 26:2 (BHS)
6 of 129 attestations shown.
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.