5533. sakan
Lexicon
sakan: To be of use, to benefit, to be profitable

Original Word: סָכַן
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: cakan
Pronunciation: sah-KAN
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-kan')
KJV: endanger, impoverish
NASB: endangered
Word Origin: [probably a denominative from H7915 (שַׂכִּין - knife)]

1. (properly) to cut, i.e. damage
2. also to grow (causatively, make) poor

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
endanger, impoverish

Probably a denominative from sakkiyn; properly, to cut, i.e. Damage; also to grow (causatively, make) poor -- endanger, impoverish.

see HEBREW sakkiyn

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to incur danger
NASB Translation
endangered (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
II. סָכַן] verb incur danger (late) (Late Hebrew id. Pi`el endanger, Hiph`il be endangered, סַכָּנָה danger, etc.; Aramaic סְכַן id., compare LevyNHWB iii. 526 f. DeHL und Koheleth 203; Eng. Trans. 194); —

Niph`al Imperfect3masculine singular יִסָּכֶןבָּֿם Ecclesiastes 10:9 he that cleaveth (logs of) wood endangers himself by them.

III. [סָכַן] verb (so most) be poor, but see below; —

Pu`al Participle הַמְסֻכָּן תְּרוּמָה Isaiah 40:20 usually, he who is impoverished in respect to offering, but very dubious; see conjectures in Du (against him Di-Kit) Skinner ZimZA ix.111 CheHeb.Hpt.מִסְכֵּן poor, מִסְכֵּנֻת poverty.

[סִכְסֵךְ] see below IV. שׂכך

Forms and Transliterations
הַֽמְסֻכָּ֣ן המסכן יִסָּ֥כֶן יסכן ham·suk·kān hamsukKan hamsukkān yis·sā·ḵen yisSachen yissāḵen
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Ecclesiastes 10:9
HEB: בּוֹקֵ֥עַ עֵצִ֖ים יִסָּ֥כֶן בָּֽם׃
NAS: logs may be endangered by them.
KJV: wood shall be endangered thereby.
INT: splits logs may be endangered

Isaiah 40:20
HEB: הַֽמְסֻכָּ֣ן תְּרוּמָ֔ה עֵ֥ץ
KJV: He that [is] so impoverished that he hath no oblation
INT: endanger for an offering A tree

2 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 5533
2 Occurrences


ham·suk·kān — 1 Occ.
yis·sā·ḵen — 1 Occ.

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