Lexical Summary sakan: to incur danger Original Word: סָכַןTransliteration: sakan Phonetic Spelling: (saw-kan') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to incur danger Meaning: to cut, damage, to grow, poor Strong's 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 Brown-Driver-Briggs H5533. sakan 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 תְּרוּמָה הַמְסֻכָּן 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 |
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