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# שָׁכֵן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7934

**inhabitant** — used 20 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

inhabitant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7934/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁכֵן: adj. inhabitant, neighbour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7934/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. inhabitant, neighbour;—שׁ׳ Is 33:24 +; cstr. שְׁכַן Ho 10:5; sf. שְׁכֵנוֹ Ex 12:4; שְׁכֵנָ֑יִכְי֯ 2 K 4:3, etc.; f. sf. שְׁכֶנְתָּהּ Ex 3:22; fpl. שְׁכֵנוֹת Ru 4:17;— inhabitant, Is 33:24 Ho 10:5. neighbour: woman Ex 3:22 (E); pl. Ru 4:17; man Ex 12:4 (P) Je 6:21; Pr 27:10, pl. 2 K 4:3; of places Dt 1:7; nations, to Judah Ez 16:26 ψ 79:12; הֶרְפָּה לִשְׁכֵנֵי(נוּ) 44:14; 79:4, cf. 31:12; 89:42; מָדוֹן לשׁ׳ 80:7; to Edom Je 49:10; to Sodom v 18; 50:40; to י׳ 11:14 (because to people).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: neighbors (14); a neighbor (2); an inhabitant (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 89:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.42/#tree)

שַׁ֭סֻּהוּ כָּל־עֹ֣בְרֵי דָ֑רֶךְ הָיָ֥ה חֶ֝רְפָּ֗ה לִשְׁכֵנָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* they have.plundered.him all \[those.who\].pass.by of.\[the\].road he.has.become a.reproach to neighbors his

*JPS 1917:* All that pass by the way spoil him; he is become a taunt to his neighbours.

[Psalms 79:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.79.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.79.4/#tree)

הָיִ֣ינוּ חֶ֭רְפָּה לִשְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּ לַ֥עַג וָ֝קֶ֗לֶס לִסְבִיבוֹתֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* we.have.become a.reproach to neighbors our mockery and derision to.\[those\] around us

*JPS 1917:* We are become a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7934.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7934/): 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).