shachan · dwell

What it means

shachan (שָׁכַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dwell”.

Settle and live; in the causative form, set, make to dwell.

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. To live somewhere, stay.
2. To make dwell: "to make his name dwell there".

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To dwell, to settle and live in a place; in the causative form, to make dwell. BDB: to reside or permanently stay. From the same root comes מִשְׁכָּן, “dwelling” (H4908).

• The glory of YHWH dwelt on Sinai Exodus 24:16
• “I will dwell in their midst” Exodus 25:8Exodus 29:451 Kings 6:13
• “To make his name dwell there” Deuteronomy 12:11
• “Who will dwell on your holy mountain?” Psalms 15:1
• “In the high and holy {place} I dwell” Isaiah 57:15

How we translate it

“Dwell” 44 times, “will dwell” 33, “dwells” 17, “dwelt” 13, “settle” 4, “settled” 3… English keeps “dwell” above all where YHWH is the subject, so that the link with מִשְׁכָּן, “the dwelling”, is seen; the formula of Deuteronomy שַׁכֵּן שֵׁם is “to make his name dwell there”.

How it is translated

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

• dwell ×44
• will dwell ×33
• dwells ×17
• dwelt ×13
• settle ×4
• settled ×3
• dwelling ×2
• They lived ×1
• camping ×1
• dwellers ×1
• others ×9

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×8
• Exodus×5
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×10
• Deuteronomy×11
• Joshua×2
• Judges×3
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×11
• Psalms×23
• Proverbs×5
• Isaiah×13
• Jeremiah×13
• Ezekiel×6
• Joel×2
• Obadiah×1
• Micah×2
• Nahum×1
• Zechariah×4

• Genesis 3:24

  And he drove out the man, and he stationed east of the garden of Eden the cherubim and the flame of the sword that turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

• Genesis 9:27

  May Elohim make room for Japheth, and let him live in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be their slave.”

• Genesis 14:13

  One who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and they had a covenant with Abram.

• Genesis 16:12

  He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone, and the hand of everyone against him; and facing all his brothers he will dwell.”

• Genesis 25:18

  They lived from Havilah to Shur, which is facing Egypt as you go toward Assyria. He settled facing all his brothers.

• Genesis 26:2

  YHWH appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land that I tell you.

• Genesis 35:22

  While Israel was dwelling in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

• Genesis 49:13

  Zebulun will dwell at the shore of the seas; he will be a shore for ships, and his border will be toward Sidon.

• Exodus 24:16

  The glory of YHWH dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day he called to Moses from the midst of the cloud.

• Exodus 25:8

  And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in their midst.

• Exodus 29:45

  I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will be their Elohim.

• Exodus 29:46

  And they shall know that I am YHWH their Elohim, who brought them out of the land of Egypt to dwell in their midst. I am YHWH their Elohim.

• Exodus 40:35

  And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting, for the cloud dwelt on it, and the glory of YHWH filled the dwelling.

• Leviticus 16:16

  So he shall make expiation for the Holy Place because of the uncleanness of the sons of Israel and because of their transgressions, for all their sins; and so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleanness.

• Numbers 5:3

  Both male and female you shall send out; outside the camp you shall send them, so that they do not make unclean their camps, in the midst of which I dwell.”

• Numbers 9:17

  And whenever the cloud was lifted from over the tent, after that the sons of Israel would set out; and in the place where the cloud settled, there the sons of Israel would camp.

• Numbers 9:18

  According to the command of YHWH the sons of Israel would set out, and according to the command of YHWH they would camp; all the days that the cloud dwelt over the dwelling they would remain camped.

• Numbers 9:22

  Or two days, or a month, or a year, while the cloud lingered over the dwelling, dwelling on it, the sons of Israel would remain camped and not set out; but when it was lifted, they would set out.

• Numbers 10:12

  And the sons of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.

• Numbers 14:30

  you shall not come into the land where I raised my hand to settle you in it, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

• Numbers 23:9

  For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I gaze on him. Look, a people that dwells alone, and does not count itself among the nations!

• Numbers 24:2

  And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe; and the spirit of Elohim came upon him.

• Numbers 35:34

  You shall not make unclean the land in which you dwell, in the midst of which I dwell; for I, YHWH, dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel.”

• Deuteronomy 12:11

  Then to the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all the choicest of your vows that you vow to YHWH.

• Deuteronomy 14:23

  And you shall eat before YHWH your Elohim, in the place that he chooses to make his name dwell there, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to fear YHWH your Elohim all the days.

• Deuteronomy 16:2

  And you shall sacrifice the Passover to YHWH your Elohim, from the flock and the herd, in the place that YHWH chooses to make his name dwell there.

• Deuteronomy 16:6

  but at the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to make his name dwell there, there you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at the appointed time of your coming out of Egypt.

• Deuteronomy 16:11

  And you shall rejoice before YHWH your Elohim, you and your son and your daughter, your male slave and your female slave, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow who are among you, in the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to make his name dwell there.

• Deuteronomy 26:2

  that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground that you bring from your land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you, and you shall put it in the basket and go to the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to make his name dwell there.

• Deuteronomy 33:12

  Of Benjamin he said, “The beloved of YHWH will dwell in security beside him; he shields him all the day, and between his shoulders he dwells.”

• Deuteronomy 33:16

  and with the choicest of the earth and its fullness, and the favor of him who dwells in the bush. Let it come on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of the one consecrated among his brothers.

• Deuteronomy 33:20

  And of Gad he said, “Blessed be he who enlarges Gad. Like a lioness he dwells, and he tears the arm and also the crown of the head.

• Deuteronomy 33:28

  And Israel dwells in security; alone the fountain of Jacob, toward a land of grain and new wine; also his heavens drip dew.

• Joshua 18:1

  And the whole community of the sons of Israel assembled at Shiloh, and they settled the tent of meeting there; and the land was subdued before them.

• Joshua 22:19

  But if the land of your possession is unclean, cross over to the land of the possession of YHWH, where the dwelling of YHWH dwells, and take possession among us; but do not rebel against YHWH, and do not rebel against us by building yourselves an altar besides the altar of YHWH our Elohim.

• Judges 5:17

  Gilead dwelt beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he reside as an alien by the ships? Asher sat at the shore of the seas, and by his inlets he dwelt.

• Judges 8:11

  Gideon went up by the way of those who dwell in tents, east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he struck the camp, while the camp was feeling secure.

• 2 Samuel 7:10

  And I will appoint a place for my people, for Israel, and I will plant them, and they will dwell in their own place and will tremble no more; and unjust men will not again afflict them as at the beginning,

• 1 Kings 6:13

  and I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will not abandon my people Israel.”

• 1 Kings 8:12

  Then Solomon said, “YHWH has said that he would dwell in the thick cloud.

And 88 more times.