Neighboring
שָׁכֵןStrong’s H7934shakhen (sha-khen)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shakhen is the Hebrew word usually translated “neighbors our”, “neighbors its” and “neighbors your”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.”
Meaning
- Inhabitant, neighbourinhabitant · neighbour
How it's translated
- to neighbors our 4
- neighbors its 2
- neighbors your 2
- a neighbor 2
- and neighbors its 2
- from neighbor her 1
- and neighbor his 1
- the neighbors 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 6
- Jeremiah 5
- Exodus 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Ruth 1
- 2 Kings 1
10 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 12:4And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
- Deuteronomy 1:7Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
- Ruth 4:17And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
- 2 Kings 4:3Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
- Psalms 31:11I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
- Psalms 44:13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁכֵן shakhen · neighboring
1) inhabitant, neighbour 1a) inhabitant 1b) neighbour
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “neighboring” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NEIGHBORING, adjective
Living or being near; as the neighboring inhabitants; neighboring countries or nations.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.