שָׁעַן shâʻan — to support one's self
Translated in the KJV as lean, lie, rely, rest (on, self), stay.
a primitive root; to support one's self.
shâʻan in each stem
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Participle (active) 4Infinitive construct 4Perfect (qatal) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Imperative 1Jussive 1Wayyiqtol 1
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.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›