shekhach (to find)

Meaning

To find(Aphel) to find · (Ithp'al) to be found

How it's translated

it was found 7
and they found 2
to find 2
so you may find 1
and it was found 1
you will find 1
i have found 1
and you have been found 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Daniel 11
Ezra 4

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 2:35In contextThen was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Daniel 5:11In contextThere is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
Daniel 5:12In contextForasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
Daniel 5:14In contextI have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.
Daniel 5:27In contextTEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Daniel 6:4In contextThen the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

All 15 verses, by book

Ezra 4: 4:15 4:19 6:2 7:16
Daniel 11: 2:25 2:35 5:11 5:12 5:14 5:27 6:4 6:5 6:11 6:22 6:23

Aramaic dictionary

שְׁכַח shekhach · to find

1) to find 1a) (Aphel) to find 1b) (Ithp'al) to be found

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “find” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FIND, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive found. [Latin venio; but in sense, with invenio. The primary sense is to come to, to rush, to fall on, to meet, to set on.]

Literally, to come to; to meet; hence, to discover by the eye; to gain first sight or knowledge of something lost; to recover either by searching for it or by accident.“Doth she not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? and when she hath found it -” Luke 15:8
To meet; to discover something not before seen or known.“He saith to him, we have found the Messiah” John 1:41
To obtain by seeking.“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find” Matthew 7:7
To meet with.

All definitions

To discover or know by experience.
To reach; to attain to; to arrive at.“Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth to life, and few there be that find it” Matthew 7:14
To discover by study, experiment or trial.
To gain; to have; as, to find leisure for a visit.
To perceive; to observe; to learn.
To catch; to detect.
To meet.
To have; to experience; to enjoy.“Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure” Isaiah 58:3
To select; to choose; to designate.“I have found David my servant” Psalms 89:20
To discover and declare the truth of disputed facts; to come to a conclusion and decide between parties, as a jury.
To determine and declare by verdict.
To establish or pronounce charges alleged to be true.
To supply; to furnish.
To discover or gain knowledge of by touching or by sounding.
To find out.
To unriddle; to solve; as, to find out the meaning of a parable of an enigma.
To discover; to obtain knowledge of what is hidden; as, to find out a secret.
To understand; to comprehend.“Canst thou by searching find out God?” Job 11:7
To detect; to discover; to bring to light; as, to find out a thief or a theft; to find out a trick.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.