Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to endanger
Usage: 1) to incur danger 1a) (Niphal) to endanger oneself
Cakan means “endanger” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5533 — chreopheiletes (“debtor”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5533 סָכַן (cakan) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. cakan (saw-kan') v. 1. (properly) to cut, i.e. damage 2. also to grow (causatively, make) poor It has 2 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include endangered. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
cakan (saw-kan') v. 1. (properly) to cut, i.e. damage 2. also to grow (causatively, make) poor [probably a denominative from H7915] KJV: endanger, impoverish. Root(s): H7915
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5533. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to endanger
Usage: 1) to incur danger 1a) (Niphal) to endanger oneself
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render cakan, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
First 2 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5533.
Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5533, grouped by book.
Cakan (Strong's H5533) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "endanger". cakan (saw-kan') v. 1. (properly) to cut, i.e. damage 2. also to grow (causatively, make) poor
This page currently indexes 2 linked usages for Strong's H5533 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5533 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as endangered. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.