Strong's #8172: sha`an (pronounced shaw-an')

a primitive root; to support one's self:--lean, lie, rely, rest (on, self), stay.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ

shâ‛an

1) to lean on, trust in, support

1a) (Niphal) to lean, lean upon, support oneself

1a1) of trust in God (figuratively)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

 

Genesis 18:4: "be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:"
Numbers 21:15: "goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab."
Judges 16:26: "whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon"
2 Samuel 1:6: "Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots"
2 Kings 5:18: "to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house"
2 Kings 7:2: "whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God,"
2 Kings 7:17: "on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trod upon"
2 Chronicles 13:18: "of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers."
2 Chronicles 14:11: "us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against"
2 Chronicles 16:7: "of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not"
2 Chronicles 16:7: "the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore"
2 Chronicles 16:8: "many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand."
Job 8:15: " He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure."
Job 24:23: "Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways."
Proverbs 3:5: "the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding."
Isaiah 10:20: "shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon"
Isaiah 10:20: "stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel,"
Isaiah 30:12: "and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:"
Isaiah 31:1: "to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in"
Isaiah 50:10: "let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God."
Ezekiel 29:7: "and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou didst broke, and madest all their loins"
Micah 3:11: "and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not"