# H5532 סָכַן

סָכַן (çâkan), Strong’s H5532: to be familiar with; by implication, to minister to, be serviceable to, be customary KJV: acquaint (self), be advantage, [idiom] ever, (be, (un-)) profit(-able)…

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*çâkan* — to be familiar with; by implication, to minister to, be serviceable to, be customary

KJV: acquaint (self), be advantage, [idiom] ever, (be, (un-)) profit(-able), treasurer, be…

Occurs 12 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [סָכַן] vb. be of use or service, benefit
- Qal
- 1 be of use or service
- 2 benefit, profit
- Hiph. be used, wont, strictly exhibit use, or habit

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 22:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/22?v=30) — The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long until today? Was I ever…
- [1 Kings 1:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/1?v=2) — Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king. Let her stand before the king…
- [1 Kings 1:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/1?v=4) — The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, and served him; but the king didn’t know her intimately.
- [Isaiah 22:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/22?v=15) — The Lord, GOD of Hosts says, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
- [Psalms 139:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/139?v=3) — You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
- [Job 15:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/15?v=3) — Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
- [Job 22:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/22?v=2) — “Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
- [Job 22:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/22?v=21) — “Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.
- [Job 34:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/34?v=9) — For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’
- [Job 35:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/35?v=3) — that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’