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hebrew #5533 - סָכַן sakan (to incur danger)


Original Word:סָכַן
Transliteration: sakan
Definition:to incur danger
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(saw-kan')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

endanger, impoverish

Probably a denominative from sakkiyn; properly, to cut, i.e. Damage; also to grow (causatively, make) poor -- endanger, impoverish.

see HEBREW sakkiyn


Englishman's Concordance

1) to incur danger
1a) (Niphal) to endanger oneself
2) to be poor
2a) (Pual) to be impoverished
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: probably a denominative from H7915
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1495, 1496

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. סָכַן] verbincur danger (late) (Late Hebrew id. Pi`el endanger, Hiph`il be endangered, סַכָּנָהdanger, etc.; Aramaic סְכַןid., compare LevyNHWB iii. 526 f. DeHL und Koheleth 203; Eng. Trans. 194); —

Niph`alImperfect3masculine singular יִסָּכֶןבָּֿםEcclesiastes 10:9 he that cleaveth (logs of) wood endangers himself by them.

III. [סָכַן] verb (so most) be poor, but see below; —

Pu`alParticipleהַמְסֻכָּן תְּרוּמָהIsaiah 40:20 usually, he who is impoverished in respect to offering, but very dubious; see conjectures in Du (against him Di-Kit) Skinner ZimZA ix.111 CheHeb.Hpt.מִסְכֵּןpoor, מִסְכֵּנֻתpoverty.

[סִכְסֵךְ] see below IV. שׂכך


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 5533. סָכַן (sakan) — 2 Occurrences

Ecclesiastes 10:9
HEB:בּוֹקֵ֥עַ עֵצִ֖ים יִסָּ֥כֶן בָּֽם׃
NAS: logs may be endangered by them.
KJV: wood shall be endangered thereby.
INT: splits logs may be endangered

Isaiah 40:20
HEB: הַֽמְסֻכָּ֣ן תְּרוּמָ֔ה עֵ֥ץ
KJV:He that [is] so impoverished that he hath no oblation
INT:endanger for an offering A tree

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