H8172 שָׁעַן
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 22 KJV occurrences
שָׁעַן
shâʻan · shaw-an'
Definition
to support one's self
KJV Renderings
lean, lie, rely, rest (on, self), stay.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 22)
- Genesis 18:4Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
- Judges 16:26And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.
- 2 Kings 7:2Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
- 2 Chronicles 14:11And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
- 2 Chronicles 16:8Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.
- Job 24:23Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
- Isaiah 10:20¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
- Isaiah 50:10¶ Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.