שָׁעַן
shâʻan · shaw-an'
to support one's self
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to support one's self
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: lean, lie, rely, rest (on, self), stay.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › to see and know › the seed, life continuing
To consume, to destroy that works to see and know of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׁעַן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
22 occurrences · 22 OT · 0 NT · 21 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and stay3 · 14%
- leaned2 · 9%
- and rest yourselves1 · 5%
- and lieth1 · 5%
- that i may lean1 · 5%
- there, and he leaneth1 · 5%
- he leaned1 · 5%
- because they relied1 · 5%
- for we rest1 · 5%
- unto him, because thou hast relied1 · 5%
- and not relied1 · 5%
- yet, because thou didst rely1 · 5%
- he shall lean1 · 5%
- whereon he resteth1 · 5%
- and lean1 · 5%
- stay1 · 5%
- them; but shall stay1 · 5%
- and when they leaned1 · 5%
- yet will they lean1 · 5%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.