Words the Bible translates as accustomed
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- sakhanסָכַןto be of benefit: to be worth something to the one who stands to gain
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- an attendant: a person kept close to a superior to look after him personally
- to be long familiar with: to know something by living with it rather than by hearing of it
- sunētheiaσυνήθειαbeing accustomed to something: the ingrained habit of a former way of life that still shapes a person
+1 more meaning
- an established custom: an accepted, repeated way of doing things that a group takes for granted
- limmudלִמֻּדtaught, trained: someone or something that instruction or long practice has shaped into a settled way of being.
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