Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to lean
Usage: 1) to lean on, trust in, support 1a) (Niphal) to lean, lean upon, support oneself 1a1) of trust in God (fig)
Shaan means “lean” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8172 שָׁעַן (sha`an) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. sha`an (shaw-an') v. 1. to support one's self [a primitive root] It has 20 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include lean, leaned, one, leaneth, and rest. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
sha`an (shaw-an') v. 1. to support one's self [a primitive root] KJV: lean, lie, rely, rest (on, self), stay.
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to lean
Usage: 1) to lean on, trust in, support 1a) (Niphal) to lean, lean upon, support oneself 1a1) of trust in God (fig)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sha`an, 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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20 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
And 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.
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8172.
Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
And 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.
And 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.
In 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.
Then 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.
And 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.
Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.
And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let no man prevail against thee.
And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.
Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8172, grouped by book.
Shaan (Strong's H8172) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "lean". sha`an (shaw-an') v. 1. to support one's self [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's H8172 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8172 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lean, leaned, one, leaneth, rest, and rely. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.