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שַׁלְאֲנָן

at ease

H7946 Strong's Hebrew
shalʼănân Transliteration
/shal-an-awn'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 1 appearance

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

The Hebrew adjective שלאנן centers on the idea of “at ease.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. The word gravitates to Job (100%). A true hapax — its single appearance is Job 21:23. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
being at ease
Modern gloss
at ease
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H7946 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Job 21:23
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Job 21:23.
#6,101
by frequency
Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

  • Job 1 verse 100%

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 1 · 100%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.

  • Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Being wholly at ease 1×
  • American Standard Version: Being wholly at ease 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Secure 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Tranquil 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H7946 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Being wholly at ease” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H7946 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Being wholly at ease” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H7946 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Secure” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H7946 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Tranquil” 1×

Senses in the full BDB

What do BDB’s symbols mean?

BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:

Symbol Meaning
𝔊 the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX)
𝔙 the Vulgate (the Latin translation)
𝔖 the Syriac version (the Peshitta)
𝔗 the Targum (the Aramaic translation)
ψ the Psalms
√ root (the underlying root or stem)
‖ parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel)
† the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited

The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  • 1. at ease, secure: נָוֶה שׁ׳ Is 33:20 secure habitation (of Jerus.), cf. מְנוּחוֹת שׁ׳ 32:18 (‖ מִבְטַחִים). e.g. Isaiah 33:20
  • 2. as subst., one at ease, free from misfortune, Jb 12:5. e.g. Job 12:5
  • 3. at ease, with collat. idea of careless, wanton, arrogant, Am 6:1; Is 32:9, 11; Zc 1:15 ψ 123:4. e.g. Amos 6:1
  • 4. as subst. abstr. = arrogance: sf. שַׁאֲנַנְךָ 2 K 19:28 (‖ הִתְרַגֶּזְךָ) = Is 37:29, but שְׁאוֹנְךָ thine uproar, BuZAW xii (1892), 36 Gr Che Marti Kit (perhaps), Bur. cf. שׁלאנן. e.g. 2 Kings 19:28

Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.


Word origin

adj. at ease, secure (BaNB § 143 a Ges§ 84 b k);—abs. שׁ׳ Is 33:20; pl. שַׁאֲנַנִּים Am 6:1 +, שַׁאֲנַנּוֹת Is 32:9, 11, 18;—

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from שאנן (shaʼănân) (H7600) — at ease.

Part of speech: Adjective TWOT: 2304a


Septuagint verse parallels

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