shachen · neighbor, resident

What it means

shachen (שָׁכֵן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “neighbor, resident”.

Neighbor (man or woman); also a temporary resident.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone who lives nearby.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• neighbors ×13
• neighbor ×5
• inhabitants ×1
• resident ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Ruth×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1

• Exodus 3:22

  Each woman shall ask of her neighbor and of the woman who resides in her house articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing, and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters; and so you shall plunder the Egyptians.”

• Exodus 12:4

  If the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house shall take one according to the number of persons; you shall make your count for the lamb each according to what he eats.

• Deuteronomy 1:7

  Turn, set out, and go to the hill country of the Amorite and to all its neighbors, in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the Shephelah, in the Negev, and on the coast of the sea, the land of the Canaanite, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

• Ruth 4:17

  And the neighbor women gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” And they called his name Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.

• 2 Kings 4:3

  He said, “Go, ask for yourself vessels from outside, from all your neighbors, empty vessels; do not get just a few.

• Psalms 31:11

  Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, and to my neighbors exceedingly, and a dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.

• Psalms 44:13

  You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and a derision to those around us.

• Psalms 79:4

  We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and a derision to those around us.

• Psalms 79:12

  And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Adonai.

• Psalms 80:6

  You make us a contention for our neighbors, and our enemies mock among themselves.

• Psalms 89:41

  All who pass along the way plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

• Proverbs 27:10

  Your friend and your father’s friend do not abandon; and do not enter your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

• Isaiah 33:24

  And no resident will say, “I am sick”; the people who dwell in it will have their iniquity taken away.

• Jeremiah 6:21

  Therefore thus says YHWH: “Look, I am placing before this people stumbling blocks, and they will stumble over them, fathers and sons together; neighbor and his friend will perish.”

• Jeremiah 12:14

  Thus says YHWH concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the inheritance that I gave as an inheritance to my people Israel: “Look, I am uprooting them from their ground, and the house of Judah I will uproot from among them.

• Jeremiah 49:10

  For I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he will not be able to hide himself; his offspring is devastated, and his brothers and his neighbors, and he is no more.

• Jeremiah 49:18

  As at the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, says YHWH, no one will dwell there, nor will a son of man reside in it.

• Jeremiah 50:40

  As at the overthrow by Elohim of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, declares YHWH, no one will dwell there, nor will a son of man reside in it.

• Ezekiel 16:26

  And you prostituted yourself with the sons of Egypt, your neighbors, great of flesh, and multiplied your prostitution to provoke me.

• Hosea 10:5

  For the calves of Beth-aven the inhabitants of Samaria will be afraid; for its people will mourn over it, and its pagan priests who rejoiced over it, over its glory, because it has gone into exile from it.