סָכַןçâkan
סָכַן: incur danger
Pronunciation: saw-kan' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5533
Meanings
Niph`al: endangers himself by them (Ecclesiastes 10:9)
סָכַן: be poor
Pu`al: but very dubious (Isaiah 40:20)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Ecclesiastes 10:9 When you work in a quarry, stones might fall and crush you. When you chop wood, there is danger with each stroke of your ax.
- Isaiah 40:20 Or if people are too poor for that, they might at least choose wood that won’t decay and a skilled craftsman to carve an image that won’t fall down!
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).