Strong’s H5532 · Hebrew

סָכַן
çâkan
saw-kan'

Definition

to be familiar with; by implication, to minister to, be serviceable to, be customary

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

  • acquaint (self)
  • be advantage
  • ever
  • (be
  • (un-)) profit(-able)
  • treasurer
  • be wont

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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