Strong's H7911 · Hebrew
שָׁכַח
shâkach · /shaw-kakh'/
Definition
to mislay, i.e. to be oblivious of, from want of memory or attention
KJV: [idiom] at all, (cause to) forget.
Root / derivation: or שָׁכֵחַ; a primitive root;
KJV usage breakdown
How the Authorized (KJV) translators rendered שָׁכַח across 95 verses.
Every occurrence (KJV)
95 verses use this word, grouped by book — the translated form is highlighted.
Genesis3 verses
Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
Genesis 40:23Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
Genesis 41:30And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
Deuteronomy13 verses
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
Deuteronomy 4:23Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
Deuteronomy 4:31(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
Deuteronomy 6:12Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. bondage: Heb. bondmen or, servants
Deuteronomy 8:11Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
Deuteronomy 8:14Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
Deuteronomy 8:19And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Deuteronomy 9:7Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
Deuteronomy 24:19When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Deuteronomy 25:19Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
Deuteronomy 26:13Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
Deuteronomy 31:21And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. against: Heb. before go: Heb. do
Deuteronomy 32:18Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
1 Samuel2 verses
And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head. a man: Heb. seed of men
1 Samuel 12:9And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
2 Kings1 verse
Job7 verses
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
Job 9:27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Job 11:16Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
Job 19:14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job 24:20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
Job 28:4The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Job 39:15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
Psalms32 verses
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. humble: or, afflicted
Psalms 9:18For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Psalms 10:11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Psalms 10:12Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. humble: or, afflicted
Psalms 13:1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? chief: or, overseer
Psalms 31:12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. a broken: Heb. a vessel that perisheth
Psalms 42:9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms 44:17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Psalms 44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
Psalms 44:24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Psalms 45:10Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
Psalms 50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Psalms 59:11Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Psalms 74:19O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
Psalms 74:23Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually. increaseth: Heb. ascendeth
Psalms 77:9Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
Psalms 78:7That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
Psalms 78:11And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
Psalms 102:4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Psalms 103:2Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Psalms 106:13They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: They soon: Heb. They made haste, they forgat
Psalms 106:21They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
Psalms 119:16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Psalms 119:61The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. bands: or, companies
Psalms 119:83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Psalms 119:93I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
Psalms 119:109My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
Psalms 119:139My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. consumed: Heb. cut me off
Psalms 119:141I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
Psalms 119:153RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
Psalms 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
Psalms 137:5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
Proverbs5 verses
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Proverbs 3:1My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Proverbs 4:5Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 31:5Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. prevert: Heb. alter of any: Heb. of all the sons of affliction
Proverbs 31:7Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Ecclesiastes3 verses
For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
Ecclesiastes 8:10And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Isaiah8 verses
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
Isaiah 23:15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. shall Tyre: Heb. it shall be unto Tyre as the song of an harlot
Isaiah 23:16Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
Isaiah 49:14But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
Isaiah 49:15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. that: Heb. from having compassion
Isaiah 51:13And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? were: or, made himself ready
Isaiah 54:4Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
Isaiah 65:16That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
Jeremiah11 verses
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Jeremiah 3:21A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 13:25This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Jeremiah 18:15Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
Jeremiah 20:11But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
Jeremiah 23:27Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
Jeremiah 23:40And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 30:14All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
Jeremiah 44:9Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? wickedness: Heb. wickednesses, or, punishments, etc
Jeremiah 50:5They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 50:6My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace. restingplace: Heb. place to lie down in
Lamentations2 verses
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. tabernacle: or, hedge
Lamentations 5:20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? so: Heb. for length of days?
Ezekiel2 verses
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 23:35Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
Hosea4 verses
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. destroyed: Heb. cut off
Hosea 8:14For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
Hosea 13:6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
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Frequently asked questions
What does Strong's H7911 (shâkach) mean?
to mislay, i.e. to be oblivious of, from want of memory or attention
How many times does H7911 appear in the Bible?
Strong's H7911 (שָׁכַח) appears in 95 verses of the King James Version, most often translated “forget.”
How is shâkach translated in the KJV?
In the KJV, Strong's H7911 is rendered as “forget” (48×), “forgotten” (40×), “forgat” (7×), “forgetteth” (3×), among other words.
Where does the Hebrew word שָׁכַח come from?
or שָׁכֵחַ; a primitive root;