שָׁכַן shâkan

Hebrew · Strong's H7931 · pronounced shaw-kan' · used 129 times in 124 verses

Meaning

to reside or permanently stay (literally or figuratively)

In the King James Version: abide, continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-er), have habitation, inhabit, lay, place, (cause to) remain, rest, set (up).

Derivation: a primitive root (apparently akin (by transmission) to H7901 (שָׁכַב) through the idea of lodging; compare H5531 (סִכְלוּת), H7925 (שָׁכַם));

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Where it is used

Psalms 37:27 Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will abide forever.
Psalms 37:29 The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.
Psalms 55:6 I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.
Psalms 65:4 Blessed is the one You choose and bring near to dwell in Your courts! We are filled with the goodness of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.
Psalms 68:6 God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
Psalms 68:16 Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.
Psalms 68:18 You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
Psalms 69:36 The descendants of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His name will settle in it.
Psalms 74:2 Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance—Mount Zion, where You dwell.
Psalms 78:55 He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Psalms 78:60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
Psalms 85:9 Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that His glory may dwell in our land.
Psalms 94:17 Unless the LORD had been my helper, I would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.
Psalms 102:28 The children of Your servants will dwell securely, and their descendants will be established before You.”
Psalms 104:12 The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.
Psalms 120:5 Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
Psalms 120:6 Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.
Psalms 135:21 Blessed be the LORD from Zion—He who dwells in Jerusalem. Hallelujah!
Psalms 139:9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
Proverbs 1:33 But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”
Proverbs 2:21 For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
Proverbs 7:11 She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.
Proverbs 8:12 I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.
Proverbs 10:30 The righteous will never be shaken, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.
Isaiah 8:18 Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
Isaiah 13:20 She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.
Isaiah 13:21 But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
Isaiah 18:3 All you people of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it; when a ram’s horn sounds, you will hear it.
Isaiah 26:19 Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
Isaiah 32:16 Then justice will inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field.
Isaiah 33:5 The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
Isaiah 33:16 he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.
Isaiah 34:11 The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
Isaiah 34:17 He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation.
Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 65:9 And I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and heirs from Judah; My elect will possess My mountains, and My servants will dwell there.
Jeremiah 7:3 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.
Jeremiah 7:7 then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
Jeremiah 7:12 But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
Jeremiah 17:6 He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
Jeremiah 23:6 In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
Jeremiah 25:24 all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;
Jeremiah 33:16 In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
Jeremiah 46:26 I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 48:28 Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.
Jeremiah 49:16 The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 49:31 Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, one that dwells securely,” declares the LORD. “They have no gates or bars; they live alone.
Jeremiah 50:39 So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.
Jeremiah 51:13 You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
Ezekiel 17:23 I will plant it on the mountain heights of Israel so that it will bear branches; it will yield fruit and become a majestic cedar. Birds of every kind will nest under it, taking shelter in the shade of its branches.
Ezekiel 31:13 All the birds of the air nested on its fallen trunk, and all the beasts of the field lived among its boughs.
Ezekiel 32:4 I will abandon you on the land and hurl you into the open field. I will cause all the birds of the air to settle upon you, and all the beasts of the earth to eat their fill of you.
Ezekiel 43:7 and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.
Ezekiel 43:9 Now let them remove far from Me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will dwell among them forever.
Joel 3:17 Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.
Joel 3:21 For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged.” For the LORD dwells in Zion.
Obadiah 1:3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
Micah 4:10 Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!
Micah 7:14 Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Nahum 3:18 O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.