Strong's #5532: cakan (pronounced saw-kan')
a primitive root; to be familiar with; by implication, to minister to, be serviceable to, be customary:--acquaint (self), be advantage, X ever, (be, (un-))profit(-able), treasurer, be wont.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
sâkan
1) to be of use or service or profit or benefit
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be of use or service
1a2) servitor, steward (participle)
1a3) to benefit, profit
1b) (Hiphil) to be used, be wont, exhibit use or habit, show harmony
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 12 times:
Numbers 22:30: "ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so"
Numbers 22:30: "ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so"
1 Kings 1:2: "and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king"
1 Kings 1:4: "And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king"
Job 15:3: "Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?"
Job 22:2: "Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto"
Job 22:2: "unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto"
Job 22:21: " Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come"
Job 34:9: "For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God."
Job 35:3: "For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?"
Psalms 139:3: "Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways."
Isaiah 22:15: "get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over"