Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
habitation
Usage: dwelling
Sheken means “habitation” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7933 שֶׁכֶן (sheken) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. sheken (sheh'-ken) n-m. 1. a residence [from H7931] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include habitation. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
sheken (sheh'-ken) n-m. 1. a residence [from H7931] KJV: habitation. Root(s): H7931
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H7933. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
habitation
Usage: dwelling
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sheken, 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.
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1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H7933.
But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7933, grouped by book.
Sheken (Strong's H7933) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "habitation". sheken (sheh'-ken) n-m. 1. a residence [from H7931]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H7933 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7933 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as habitation. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.