To lean
שָׁעַןStrong’s H8172shaan (sha-an)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shaan is the Hebrew word usually translated “leaning”, “depend” and “support yourself”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:”
Meaning
- To lean on, trust in, support(Niphal) to lean, lean upon, support oneself
How it's translated
- leaning 2
- they depend 2
- and support yourself 1
- and it leans 1
- so i may lean 1
- supporting himself 1
- was leaning 1
- they depended 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Isaiah 4
- 2 Kings 3
- Job 2
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 21:15And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
- 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 Samuel 1:6And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
- 2 Kings 5:18In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
- 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 Kings 7:17And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁעַן shaan · to lean
1) to lean on, trust in, support 1a) (Niphal) to lean, lean upon, support oneself 1a1) of trust in God (fig)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lean” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEAN, verb intransitive
[Gr., Latin clino.]
- To deviate or move from a straight or perpendicular line; or to be in a position thus deviating.
- To incline or propend; to tend toward.
- To bend or incline so as to rest on something; as, to lean against a wall or a pillar; to lean on the arm of another.
- To bend; to be in a bending posture.
All definitions and other forms of “lean”
LEAN, verb transitive
- To incline; to cause to lean
- To conceal. [Not in use.]
LEAN, adjective
[Latin lenis, and Eng. slender.]
- Wanting flesh; meager; not fat; as a lean body; a lean man or animal.
- Not rich; destitute of good qualities; bare; barren; as lean earth.
- Low; poor; in opposition to rich or great; as a lean action. [Unusual.]
- Barren of thought; destitute of that which improves or entertains; jejune; as a lean discourse or dissertation.
LEAN, noun
That part of flesh which consists of muscle without the fat.
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.