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# סָכַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5533

**incur danger** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

incur danger [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5533/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָכַן²: vb. incur danger [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5533/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. incur danger (late) (NH id. Pi. endanger, Hiph. be endangered, סַכָּנָה. danger, etc.; Aramaic סְכַן id., cf. LevyNHWB iii. 526 i. DeHL und Koheleth 203; Eng. Trans. 194);— Impf. 3 ms. יִסָּ֫כֶן בָּם Ec 10:9 he that cleaveth (logs of) wood endangers himself by them.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he will be endangered (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 10:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.9/#tree)

מַסִּ֣יעַ אֲבָנִ֔ים יֵעָצֵ֖ב בָּהֶ֑ם בּוֹקֵ֥עַ עֵצִ֖ים יִסָּ֥כֶן בָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].quarries stones he.will.be.hurt by them \[one.who\].cleaves wood(s) he.will.be.endangered by them

*JPS 1917:* Whoso quarrieth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5533.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5533/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).