שָׁנָה
year
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Dual
- Exactly two — for natural pairs and some measures of time.
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Genesis 95 verses
- Genesis 1:14 וְ/שָׁנִֽים conj + n c fp God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
- Genesis 5:3 שָׁנָ֔ה n c fs Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
- Genesis 5:4 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:5 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:6 שָׁנִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה n c fp n c fs Seth lived one hundred five years, and became the father of Enosh.
- Genesis 5:7 שָׁנִ֔ים שָׁנָ֑ה n c fp n c fs Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:8 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs All the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:9 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.
- Genesis 5:10 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:11 שָׁנִ֔ים שָׁנָ֑ה n c fp n c fs All the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:12 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.
- Genesis 5:13 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of sons and daughters
- Genesis 5:14 שָׁנִ֔ים שָׁנָ֑ה n c fp n c fs and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:15 שָׁנִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה n c fp n c fs Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared.
- Genesis 5:16 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:17 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:18 שָׁנָ֖ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.
- Genesis 5:19 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:20 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs All the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:21 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah.
- Genesis 5:22 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:23 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָֽה n c fs n c fs all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.
- Genesis 5:25 שָׁנָ֖ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.
- Genesis 5:26 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:27 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:28 שָׁנָ֖ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of a son,
- Genesis 5:30 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:31 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:32 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 6:3 שָׁנָֽה n c fs Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
- Genesis 7:6 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
- Genesis 7:11 בִּ/שְׁנַ֨ת שָׁנָה֙ prep + n c fs cs n c fs In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.
- Genesis 8:13 שָׁנָ֗ה n c fs It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
- Genesis 9:28 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָֽה n c fs n c fs Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
- Genesis 9:29 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.
- Genesis 11:10 שָׁנָ֔ה שְׁנָתַ֖יִם n c fs adj Cardinal number fd This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
- Genesis 11:11 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Shem lived after he became the father of Arpachshad five hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:12 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah.
- Genesis 11:13 שָׁנִ֔ים שָׁנָ֑ה n c fp n c fs Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:14 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
- Genesis 11:15 שָׁנִ֔ים שָׁנָ֑ה n c fp n c fs and Shelah lived after he became the father of Eber four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:16 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
- Genesis 11:17 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs Eber lived after he became the father of Peleg four hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:18 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
- Genesis 11:19 שָׁנִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה n c fp n c fs Peleg lived after he became the father of Reu two hundred nine years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:20 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
- Genesis 11:21 שָׁנִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה n c fp n c fs Reu lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:22 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
- Genesis 11:23 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Serug lived after he became the father of Nahor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:24 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
- Genesis 11:25 שָׁנָ֖ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs Nahor lived after he became the father of Terah one hundred nineteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:26 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
- Genesis 11:32 שָׁנִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה n c fp n c fs The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
- Genesis 12:4 שָׁנִים֙ שָׁנָ֔ה n c fp n c fs So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
- Genesis 14:4 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs n c fs Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.
- Genesis 14:5 שָׁנָ֜ה n c fs In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
- Genesis 15:13 שָׁנָֽה n c fs He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
- Genesis 16:3 שָׁנִ֔ים n c fp Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
- Genesis 16:16 שָׁנָ֖ה שָׁנִ֑ים n c fs n c fp Abram was eighty-six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
- Genesis 17:1 שָׁנָ֖ה שָׁנִ֑ים n c fs n c fp When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
- Genesis 17:17 שָׁנָה֙ שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs n c fs Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"
- Genesis 17:21 בַּ/שָּׁנָ֖ה prep det + n c fs But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time in the next year."
- Genesis 17:24 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
- Genesis 17:25 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
- Genesis 21:5 שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.
- Genesis 23:1 שָׁנָ֛ה שָׁנָ֖ה שָׁנִ֑ים שְׁנֵ֖י n c fs n c fs n c fp adj Cardinal number md cs Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. These were the years of Sarah's life.
- Genesis 25:7 שְׁנֵֽי שָׁנָ֛ה שָׁנָ֖ה שָׁנִֽים adj Cardinal number md cs n c fs n c fs n c fp These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
- Genesis 25:17 שְׁנֵי֙ שָׁנָ֛ה שָׁנָ֖ה שָׁנִ֑ים adj Cardinal number md cs n c fs n c fs n c fp These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 25:20 שָׁנָ֔ה n c fs Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
- Genesis 25:26 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
- Genesis 26:12 בַּ/שָּׁנָ֥ה prep det + n c fs Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
- Genesis 26:34 שָׁנָ֔ה n c fs When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
- Genesis 29:18 שָׁנִ֔ים n c fp Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
- Genesis 29:20 שָׁנִ֑ים n c fp Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
- Genesis 29:27 שָׁנִ֥ים n c fp Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."
- Genesis 29:30 שָׁנִ֥ים n c fp He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- Genesis 31:38 שָׁנָ֤ה n c fs These twenty years have I been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.
- Genesis 31:41 שָׁנָה֮ שָׁנָה֙ שָׁנִ֖ים n c fs n c fs n c fp These twenty years have I been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
- Genesis 35:28 שָׁנָ֖ה שָׁנָֽה n c fs n c fs The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
- Genesis 37:2 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
- Genesis 41:1 שְׁנָתַ֣יִם adj Cardinal number fd It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
- Genesis 41:26 שָׁנִים֙ שָׁנִ֖ים n c fp n c fp The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
- Genesis 41:27 שָׁנִים֙ שְׁנֵ֥י n c fp adj Cardinal number md cs The seven lean and ill-favored cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
- Genesis 41:29 שָׁנִ֖ים n c fp Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 41:35 הַ/שָּׁנִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c fp Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
- Genesis 41:46 שָׁנָ֔ה n c fs Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 41:48 שָׁנִ֗ים n c fp He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, he laid up in the same.
- Genesis 45:6 שְׁנָתַ֥יִם שָׁנִ֔ים n c fd n c fp For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
- Genesis 45:11 שָׁנִ֖ים n c fp There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."'
- Genesis 47:9 שְׁנֵ֣י שָׁנָ֑ה שְׁנֵ֣י שְׁנֵי֙ adj Cardinal number md cs n c fs adj Cardinal number md cs adj Cardinal number md cs Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
- Genesis 47:17 בַּ/שָּׁנָ֖ה prep det + n c fs They brought their cattle to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year.
- Genesis 47:18 הַ/שָּׁנָ֣ה בַּ/שָּׁנָ֣ה ptcl def.art + n c fs prep det + n c fs When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
- Genesis 47:28 שָׁנָ֑ה שְׁנֵ֣י שָׁנִ֔ים שָׁנָֽה n c fs adj Cardinal number md cs n c fp n c fs Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.
- Genesis 50:22 שָׁנִֽים n c fp Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
- Genesis 50:26 שָׁנִ֑ים n c fp So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Exodus 23 verses
- Exodus 6:16 וּ/שְׁנֵי֙ שָׁנָֽה conj + Adjective Cardinal number md cs n c fs These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.
- Exodus 6:18 וּ/שְׁנֵי֙ שָׁנָֽה conj + Adjective Cardinal number md cs n c fs The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years.
- Exodus 6:20 וּ/שְׁנֵי֙ שָׁנָֽה conj + Adjective Cardinal number md cs n c fs Amram took Jochebed his father's sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.
- Exodus 7:7 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
- Exodus 12:2 הַ/שָּׁנָֽה ptcl def.art + n c fs "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
- Exodus 12:5 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
- Exodus 12:40 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָֽה n c fs n c fs Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
- Exodus 12:41 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, even the same day it happened, that all the hosts of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 16:35 שָׁנָ֔ה n c fs The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
- Exodus 21:2 שָׁנִ֖ים n c fp If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
- Exodus 23:10 שָׁנִ֖ים n c fp "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,
- Exodus 23:14 בַּ/שָּׁנָֽה prep det + n c fs "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.
- Exodus 23:16 הַ/שָּׁנָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
- Exodus 23:17 בַּ/שָּׁנָ֑ה prep det + n c fs Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
- Exodus 23:29 בְּ/שָׁנָ֣ה prep + n c fs I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.
- Exodus 29:38 שָׁנָ֛ה n c fs "Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
- Exodus 30:10 בַּ/שָּׁנָ֑ה בַּ/שָּׁנָה֙ prep det + n c fs prep det + n c fs Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh."
- Exodus 30:14 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.
- Exodus 34:22 הַ/שָּׁנָֽה ptcl def.art + n c fs You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end.
- Exodus 34:23 בַּ/שָּׁנָ֑ה prep det + n c fs Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- Exodus 34:24 בַּ/שָּׁנָֽה prep det + n c fs For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
- Exodus 38:26 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.
- Exodus 40:17 בַּ/שָּׁנָ֥ה prep det + n c fs It happened in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tent was raised up.
Leviticus 28 verses
- Leviticus 9:3 שָׁנָ֛ה n c fs You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
- Leviticus 16:34 בַּ/שָּׁנָ֑ה prep det + n c fs "This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 19:23 שָׁנִ֗ים n c fp "'When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years shall they be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.
- Leviticus 19:24 וּ/בַ/שָּׁנָה֙ conj + prep det + n c fs But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 19:25 וּ/בַ/שָּׁנָ֣ה conj + prep det + n c fs In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.
- Leviticus 23:18 שָׁנָ֔ה n c fs You shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, one young bull, and two rams. Yhey shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 23:19 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
- Leviticus 23:41 בַּ/שָּׁנָ֑ה prep det + n c fs You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.
- Leviticus 25:3 שָׁנִים֙ שָׁנִ֖ים n c fp n c fp Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;
- Leviticus 25:4 וּ/בַ/שָּׁנָ֣ה conj + prep det + n c fs but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
- Leviticus 25:8 שָׁנִ֔ים שָׁנִ֖ים הַ/שָּׁנִ֔ים שָׁנָֽה n c fp n c fp ptcl def.art + n c fp n c fs "'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
- Leviticus 25:10 שְׁנַ֤ת שָׁנָ֔ה n c fs cs n c fs You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
- Leviticus 25:11 שְׁנַ֛ת שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs cs n c fs That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.
- Leviticus 25:15 שָׁנִים֙ שְׁנֵֽי n c fp adj Cardinal number md cs According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.
- Leviticus 25:16 הַ/שָּׁנִ֗ים הַ/שָּׁנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c fp ptcl def.art + n c fp According to the length of the years you shall increase the price of it, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish the price of it; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.
- Leviticus 25:20 בַּ/שָּׁנָ֣ה prep det + n c fs If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;"
- Leviticus 25:21 בַּ/שָּׁנָ֖ה הַ/שָּׁנִֽים prep det + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fp then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.
- Leviticus 25:22 הַ/שָּׁנָ֣ה הַ/שָּׁנָ֣ה ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
- Leviticus 25:30 שָׁנָ֣ה n c fs If it isn't redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.
- Leviticus 25:50 מִ/שְּׁנַת֙ שְׁנַ֣ת שָׁנִ֔ים prep + n c fs cs n c fs cs n c fp He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him.
- Leviticus 25:51 בַּ/שָּׁנִ֑ים prep det + n c fp If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
- Leviticus 25:52 בַּ/שָּׁנִ֛ים שְׁנַ֥ת שָׁנָ֔י/ו prep det + n c fp n c fs cs n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.
- Leviticus 25:53 שָׁנָ֛ה בְּ/שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs prep + n c fs As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
- Leviticus 27:3 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs Your valuation shall be of a male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, even your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
- Leviticus 27:5 שָׁנִ֗ים שָׁנָ֔ה n c fp n c fs If the person is from five years old even to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
- Leviticus 27:6 שָׁנִ֔ים n c fp If the person is from a month old even to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
- Leviticus 27:7 שָׁנָ֤ה n c fs If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
- Leviticus 27:18 הַ/שָּׁנִים֙ שְׁנַ֣ת ptcl def.art + n c fp n c fs cs But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.
Numbers 66 verses
- Numbers 1:1 בַּ/שָּׁנָ֣ה prep det + n c fs Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Numbers 1:3 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.
- Numbers 1:18 שָׁנָ֛ה n c fs They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.
- Numbers 1:20 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs The children of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
- Numbers 1:22 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
- Numbers 1:24 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
- Numbers 1:26 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
- Numbers 1:28 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
- Numbers 1:30 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
- Numbers 1:32 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs Of the children of Joseph, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by thir families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
- Numbers 1:34 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
- Numbers 1:36 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
- Numbers 1:38 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;
- Numbers 1:40 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;
- Numbers 1:42 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;
- Numbers 1:45 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel;
- Numbers 4:3 שָׁנָה֙ שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 4:23 שָׁנָ֜ה שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs n c fs from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shall you number them; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 4:30 שָׁנָ֜ה שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs n c fs from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old shall you number them, everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 4:35 שָׁנָה֙ שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 4:39 שָׁנָה֙ שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting,
- Numbers 4:43 שָׁנָה֙ שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting,
- Numbers 4:47 שָׁנָה֙ שָׁנָ֑ה n c fs n c fs from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,
- Numbers 7:17 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- Numbers 7:23 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.
- Numbers 7:29 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
- Numbers 7:35 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
- Numbers 7:41 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
- Numbers 7:47 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
- Numbers 7:53 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
- Numbers 7:59 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
- Numbers 7:65 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
- Numbers 7:71 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
- Numbers 7:77 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.
- Numbers 7:83 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
- Numbers 7:87 שָׁנָ֛ה n c fs all the oxen for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, and their meal offering; and the male goats for a sin offering twelve;
- Numbers 7:88 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs and all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after it was anointed.
- Numbers 8:24 שָׁנָה֙ n c fs "This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;
- Numbers 8:25 שָׁנָ֔ה n c fs and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more,
- Numbers 9:1 בַּ/שָּׁנָ֨ה prep det + n c fs Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Numbers 10:11 בַּ/שָּׁנָ֧ה prep det + n c fs It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tent of the testimony.
- Numbers 13:22 שָׁנִים֙ n c fp They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
- Numbers 14:29 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
- Numbers 14:33 שָׁנָ֔ה n c fs Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
- Numbers 14:34 לַ/שָּׁנָ֞ה לַ/שָּׁנָ֗ה שָׁנָ֑ה prep det + n c fs prep det + n c fs n c fs After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my alienation.
- Numbers 26:2 שָׁנָ֛ה n c fs Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all who are able to go forth to war in Israel.
- Numbers 26:4 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs [Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old and upward; as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 28:3 שָׁנָ֧ה n c fs You shall tell them, This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: he-lambs a year old without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
- Numbers 28:9 שָׁנָ֖ה n c fs On the Sabbath day two he-lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a meal-offering, mixed with oil, and the drink-offering of it:
- Numbers 28:11 שָׁנָ֛ה n c fs In the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish;
- Numbers 28:14 הַ/שָּׁנָֽה ptcl def.art + n c fs Their drink-offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
- Numbers 28:19 שָׁנָ֔ה n c fs but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven he-lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish;
- Numbers 28:27 שָׁנָֽה n c fs but you shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savor to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old;
- Numbers 29:2 שָׁנָ֛ה n c fs You shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savor to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish;
About this entry
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“year” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun שנה (shâneh). Its meaning spans more than one sense — see its full sense range. It appears 647 verses across 32 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its most common vocabulary. First canonically at Genesis 1:14, it enters the text early. Related forms include שנה, משנה and שני. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8141 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 647
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 647 distinct verses.
- 32 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 32 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #49
- by frequency
- Top 50 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 49 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 647 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 647 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 270 verses · 42%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 247 verses · 38%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 130 verses · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 3 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Years 440×, Year 314×, Two years 5×
- American Standard Version†: Years 430×, Year 286×, Same year 4×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Years 288×, Year 238×, Years old 20×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Years 448×, Year 275×, The 60×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8141 across 804† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 35 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 71 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8141 across 801† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 54 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8141 across 612† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 32 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 263 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8141 across 955† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 18 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Pual (the passive of Piel) and Hithpael (reflexive or reciprocal).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 6 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
שנה I change (NH Pi, etc.
Qal
- Pf. 1 s. לֹא שָׁנִיתִי Mal 3:6 I am י׳, I do not change; Impf. 3 ms. יִשְׁנֶא (Ges§ 77 rr) La 4:1 how is the fine gold changed (si vera l.; LöhrNow יִשָּׁנֵא; gloss on יוּעַם Bu Löhr); Inf. cstr. שְׁנוֹת יְמִין עֶלְיוֹן ψ 77:11 the right hand of the Highest is changed (𝔖 𝔙 𝔗 Aq Sym Theod Hup-Now RVm Bae Du We Buhl; AV RV Ew De Che al. years, usually ins. I will remember); Pt. שׁוֹנִים Est 1:7 differing, different, c. מִן, cf. 3:8 (so Ecclus 42:24); Pr 24:21 those who change (but dub., v. Toy). e.g. Malachi 3:6
Piel
- transit., change, alter: Pf. 3 ms. שִׁנָּה Je 52:33 c. acc. garments, = שִׁנָּא (Gesl.c.) 2 K 25:29; Impf. 3 ms. יְשַׁנֶּה דִּין Pr 31:5 lest he pervert the judgment; וַיְשַׁנּוֹ 1 S 21:14 (read וַיְשַׁן Ges§ 75bb, וַיְשַׁנֶּה We Dr (and reff.), cf. Bu HPS Now), c. acc. טַעְמוֹ (v טַעַם, and Assyrian šanê ṭêmi, madness); וַיְשַׁנֶּהָ Est 2:9, i.e. changed her place לְטוֹב בֵּית הַנָּשִׁים; 1 s. ψ 89:35 the utterance of my lips I will not change (‖ לֹא אֲחַלֵּל בְּרִיתִי); Inf. cstr. לְשַׁנּוֹת אֶת־דַּרְכֵּךְ Je 2:36 i.e. change thy political course; בְּשַׁנּוֹתוֹ אֶת־טַעְמוֹ ψ 34:1 (title; cf. 1 S 21:14 supr.); Pt. מְשַׁנֶּה פָנָיו Jb 14:20 altering his face, i.e. in death (subj. God). e.g. Jeremiah 52:33
Pual
- Impf. 3 ms. וְעֹז פָּנָיו יְשֻׁנֶּא (Ges§ 75rr) Ec 8:1, usually is changed, mollified, Siegf יִשָּׂנֵא is hated (on עֹז פ׳ v. עֹז 4, √ עזז). e.g. Ecclesiastes 8:1
Hithpael
- Pf. 2 fs. consec. קוּמִי נָא וְהִשְׁתַּנִּית 1 K 14:2 arise, pray, and disguise thyself. e.g. 1 Kings 14:2
שנה II (on appar. except v. AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 46), year (etym. v. √)
שנה III repeat, do again (NH id.
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. שׁ׳ 2 S 20:10; Impf. 1 s. אֶשְׁנֶה 1 S 26:8, etc.; Imv. mpl. שְׁנוּ 1 K 18:34; Pt. שֹׁנֶה Pr 17:9; 26:11;—do again: וַיַּכֵּהוּ … וְלֹא שׁ׳ לוֹ 2 S 20:10, cf. 1 S 26:8; abs. 1 K 18:34(×2) Ne 13:21; = speak again Jb 29:22 + 40:5 according to many moderns (אשׁנה for MT אענה); שׁ׳ בְּדָבָר Pr 17:9 repeat with a thing, keep talking about it (שנות דבר Ecclus 42:1); 26:11 a dullard repeats with (ב) his folly, does it over agian (learns nothing by experience). e.g. 2 Samuel 20:10
Niphal
- Inf. cstr. וְעַל הִשָּׁנוֹת הַחֲלוֹם אֶל־פַּרְעֹה פַּעֲמָ֑יִם Gn 41:32 (E) concerning the dream’s being repeated, etc. e.g. Genesis 41:32
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. vb. change (NH Pi, etc.; Ecclus 42:24, etc.; Assyrian šanû, change, Aramaic שְׁנָא, Nab. Ethpa. Lzb379; Syriac ܫܢܳܐ, especially mentally = grow insane; cf. (prob.) NH שָׁנָה year, = Ph. שנת, שת; MI 2, 8 שת; Assyrian šattu (cf. Muss-ArnoltJBL xi (1892), 73 n.); Arabic سَنَةٌ; Aramaic שְׁנַא, שַׁתָּא, ܫܢܳܐ, ܫܰܢ݈ܬܳܐ; Old Aramaic, Nab., Palm. שנתא, שנת, שת, שנן Lzb379 f.; on year from changing seasons, v. PhilippiZMG xxxii (1878), 79 f. BaZMG xli (1887), 612, 621, 636 (especially against DHM VIme Orient. Congr. ii. 1, 452 who proposes bilit. √), cf. Thes; a daring suggestion by JenZA vii (1892), 177);—
II. n.f. (on appar. except v. AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 46), year (etym. v. √);—abs. שׁ׳ Am 2:10 +; cstr. שְׁנַת Gn 41:50 +; sf. שְׁנָתוֹ Ez 46:13 +, שְׁנָתָהּ Lv 14:10 + 2 times; du. שְׁנָתַיִם Am 1:1 +, -תָ֑יִם 1 K 15:25 +; pl. שָׁנִים Ex 21:2 +, cstr. שְׁנֵי Gn 23:1 + 24 times, שְׁנוֹת Dt 32:7 + 8 times (poet. and late); sf. שָׁנָיו Lv 25:52 + 4 times sf.; שְׁנוֹתַי Is 38:15 ψ 31:11, שְׁנוֹתָם 78:33 + 8 times sf.;—year, as division of time, Ex 23:14, 17 3 times בַּשָּׁנָה +, etc.; רֵשִׁית הַשּׁ׳ Dt 11:12, opp. אַחֲרִית הַשּׁ׳ v 12, צֵאת הַשּׁ׳ Ex 23:16, תְּקוּפַת הַשּׁ׳ 34:22 2 Ch 24:23, תְּשׁוּבַת הַשּׁ׳ 2 S 11:1 +, etc.; בָּא שָׁנָה 2 K 13:20, read כְּבֹא שׁ׳ 𝔊 Bur, בארץ שׁ׳ בְשׁ׳ Kit, cf. שׁ׳ בְשׁ׳ = year by year 1 S 1:7 +; בַּשָּׁנָה Benz, cf. Ne 10:33; so שׁ׳ שׁ׳ Dt 14:22, שׁ׳ אַחֲרֵי שׁ׳ 2 S 21:1, בְּכָל־שׁ׳ וְשׁ׳ Est 9:21, 27; especially of duration of life; (יְמֵי) שְׁנֵי חַיֵּי פ׳ Gn 23:1; 25:7 + (P); שְׁנֵיהֶם Jb 36:11 +, שְׁנוֹתַי ψ 31:11 (‖ חַיַּי), etc.; of God Jb 10:5 ψ 102:25, 28; in phr. of age, v. בֵּן 9, בַּת 9; indef. שָׁנִים Ez 38:17 = for years, לְקֵץ שׁ׳ Dn 11:6; זֶה־יָמִים אוֹ זֶה שָׁנִים 1 S 29:3; specif. בִּשְׁנַת מוֹת הַמֶּלֶךְ Is 6:1; 14:28, בִּשְׁנַת בֹּא תַּרְתָּן 20:1, שְׁנַת הַשְּׁמִטָה Dt 15:9; 31:10, שְׁנַת הַיּוֹבֵל Lv 25:13 +, etc.; שְׁנֵי שָׂכִיר Is 16:14; 21:16 (v. שָׂכִיר); שְׁנַת פְּקֻדָּתָם Je 11:23 + 2 times; שׁ׳ רָצוֹן לְי׳ Is 61:2, etc.; שְׁנוֹת דֹּר־וָדֹר Dt 32:7, cf. Jo 2:2; most often c. num. card.: pl. after units, appos., Ex 21:2 +, so also שְׁתַּיִם שָׁנִים 2 S 2:10 +, but du. שְׁנָתַיִם Am 1:1 + 4 times, שְׁנָתַיִם יָמִים Gn 41:1 + 4 times; very rarely c. num. (certainly) cstr. שְׁתֵּי שָׁנִים 1 S 13:1 (corrupt), שְׁלשׁ שׁ׳ Lv 25:21; 8 + שָׁנָה †2 K 22:1; before unit (rare, late) 2 Ch 11:17(×2); Dn 1:5; sg. after 11–19, tens, and hundreds Gn 5:3, 9; 14:4 + often; so 90 + 9 years 17:24 +, rarely 30 + 3 years 1 K 2:11, etc.; but אֶלֶפ שָׁנִים ψ 90:4 1000 years, so (+ פַּעֲמַיִם) Ec 6:6 1000 years twice over; with cp. num. often repeated, 900 year + 30 year Gn 5:5, etc.; 100 year + 70 year + 5 years 25:7, etc.; c. num. card. = ord., בִּשְׁנַת אַרְבַּע לְ 1 K 22:41 in the fourth year of, etc., also בִּשְׁנַת חֲמִשִּׁים שָׁנָה לְ 2 K 15:23, etc.; but בְּאַרְבַּע עֶשְׂרֵה שׁ׳ לְ 2 K 18:13, etc. (often), and בַּשָּׁנָה הָאַחַת עֶשְׂרֵה 1 K 6:38, etc.; also (c. units), בַּשָּׁנָה הָֽרְבִיעִת Lv 19:24 +, etc., + לְ 2 K 17:6 the ninth year of, etc.; and even (Ges§ 134 p) בִּשְׁנַת הַתְּשִׁיעִית לְ 2 K 25:1, cf. Ezr 7:8; Je 46:2; 51:59 + (Kt) 28:1; 32:1 (Qr בַּשָּׁנָה).
III. vb. repeat, do again (NH id.; Ecclus 42:1; Arabic ثَنَى bend, fold, double; Aramaic תְּנָא repeat, also teach, ܬܢܳܐ; Assyrian šanû, especially Pi. repeat, relate, cf. ScheilZA v (1890), 409 (Dl thinks denom.); on שׁ׳ as √ of שְׁנַיִם two, v. PhilippiZMG xxxii (1878), 77 Baib. xii (1887), 603);—
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Derived from שנה (shânâh) (H8138) — to change.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שֵׁינָה
- sleep. Ber. 3ᵇ מעולם לא עבר … בש׳ midnight never found me asleep. Ib. 62ᵇ ש׳ בעמוד וכ׳ sleep at morning dawn (v. שֵׁינָא I). Meg. 15ᵇ שְׁנַת וכ׳, v. נָדַד. Succ. 26ᵃ שֵׁינַת, v. עַרְאַי. Ib. במוסר שֵׁינָתוֹ וכ׳ when he gives his sleep in charge of others (gives orders to wake him up). Yoma I, 4 המאכל מביא את הש׳ eating causes sleepiness. Tam. 28ᵃ אונס ש׳ being overcome by sleep. Snh. 93ᵇ שהיו אונסין … ומן הש׳ they forced themselves not to laugh, talk, or fall asleep. Kidd. 49ᵇ עשרה ש׳ וכ׳ ten measures of sleep have come down to the world, nine of which the slaves have taken &c.; a. fr.
שָׁנָה
- I, v. שני
שָׁנָה II
- , Revue des Et. Juives XI, 1885, p. 64) year. Ber. 55ᵃ שלשה … ש׳ טובה וכ׳ three things must be prayed for: a good king, a good year, and a good dream. R. Hash. I, 1, a. fr. ראש הש׳, v. רֹאשׁ. Ib. 2ᵃ עלתה לו ש׳ it is counted as one year of his reign (his second year begins). Y. Yoma V, 42ᶜ top; Bab. ib. 53ᵇ, v. גָּשַׁם. Ib. 39ᵇ אותה ש׳ … בש׳ זו הוא מת (on the Day of Atonement of) the year in which Simon the righteous died, he said to them, in this year he (euphem. for I) shall die. Snh. 97ᵃ; Ab. Zar. 9ᵃ ששת אלפים ש׳ וכ׳ the world will last six thousand years. Naz. 5ᵃ אותה ש׳ … שנת עשר וכ׳ the year in which they asked for a king was the tenth year of office of Samuel &c. Par. I, 1 בת שְׁנָתָהּ in her first year; a. v. fr.—Pl. שָׁנִים, constr. שְׁנוֹת (שְׁנֵי). Naz. l. c. ימים שאין עמהן ש׳ ‘days’ in the Scriptures to which the word ‘years’ is not attached; זה שיש עמו ש׳ this passage (Gen. XLI, 1) where ‘years’ is combined with days. Yoma 71ᵃ (ref. to Prov. III, 2) וכי יש ש׳ של חיים ויש ש׳ שאינן וכ׳ are there years of life, and years of no life? אלו שְׁנוֹתָיו של אדם וכ׳ those are a man’s years which are changed for him from evil to good. Sabb. 89ᵇ (ref. to כשנים, Is. I, 18) אם יהיו חטאיכם כש׳ הללו וכ׳ if your sins were as many as the years that have been arranged and have come down from the six days of creation until now, they shall become white &c.; Yalk. Is. 256; Y. Sabb. IX, 12ᵃ bot. כש׳ שבין וכ׳ as the years (required for travelling) between the heaven and the earth; כשְׁנֵי אבות as the years of the patriarchs; a. v. fr.—ברכת הש׳ (the blessing of the harvests of the year) birkhath hash-shanim, the ninth section of the Prayer of Benedictions (תְּפִלָּה). Ber. 29ᵃ, v. שְׁאֵלָה. Taan. 2ᵃ; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 41:1
שֵׁנָה
- , v. שֵׁינָה
שני
- (b. h.)
- 1. to repeat, do a second time. Yoma 86ᵇ ואם ש׳ בהן וכ׳ but if he committed the same sins again, he must confess them. Ib. כיון … וש׳ בה וכ׳ when a man commits a sin and repeats it, it appears to him permitted; M. Kat. 27ᵇ. Ib. 16ᵇ; Ber. 18ᵃ אם קרית לא שָׁנִיתָ ואם שנית וכ׳ if thou hast read (studied), thou hast not repeated, and if thou hast repeated, thou hast not reviewed a third time, and if thou hast done so, they have not explained it to thee (v. פָּרַשׁ). Sot. 9ᵃ (ref. to Mal. III, 6) לא … ושָׁנִיתִי לה וכ׳ I never struck a nation and had to do it a second time, but you, children of Israel, have not been consumed; Yalk. Deut. 825. Ib. שהיה מכה … ולא שֹׁונֶה לו who used to strike a man once and no more (killed with one stroke). Tosef. Toh. IV, 1 אומר לו שיִשְׁנֶה we say to him that he should do it again (when it will be seen whether it can be done without touching uncleanness); אין שֹׁונִין בטהרות we must not try again for the purpose of deciding in matters of levitical cleanness; Nidd. 5ᵇ אומרים לו שְׁנֵה ושונה we say to him, do it again, and he does it again; a. fr.—Part. pass. שָׁנוּי; f. שְׁנוּיָה &c. Meg. 31ᵃ; Ab. Zar. 19ᵇ, v. שָׁלַשׁ; a. e. e.g. Malachi 3:6
- 2. (denom. of מִשְׁנָה) to study the Mishnah; in gen. to study; to teach. Meg. 28ᵇ; Nidd. 73ᵃ כל השונה וכ׳ he who studies (reviews) traditional laws every day. Meg. 32ᵃ; Treat. Sof’rim III, 10 השונה בלא זמרה who studies (Mishnah and Gemarah) without chant. B. Mets. 44ᵃ שנית לנו … ותִשְׁנֶה לנו וכ׳ in thy earlier days thou taughtest us …, and again in thy old days, thou teachest us &c.?; Ab. Zar. 52ᵇ. Erub. 92ᵃ וכי רבי לא שְׁנָאָהּ וכ׳ but if Rabbi has not taught that, whence could R. Ḥiyya have it?; Yeb. 43ᵃ; Nidd. 62ᵃ רבי לא שנה וכ׳ Rabbi has not taught this? whence &c.? Yeb. 108ᵇ, a. e. מי שש׳ זו לא ש׳ זו he who taught this, has not taught that, i.e. the two clauses in the Mishnah are from different authors, v. תַּבְרָא. Ḥull. 85ᵃ ראה רבי … ושְׁנָאָן וכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. ושנאו) Rabbi approved of the opinion of R. …, and embodied it in the Mishnah as the opinion of ‘the scholars’. Pes. 3ᵇ; Ḥull. 63ᵇ לעולם יִשְׁנֶה אדם לתלמידו וכ׳ one should always teach his pupil the shortest way (use the briefest terms). Ib. 81ᵇ, a. fr. לא שָׁנוּ אלא וכ׳ they have taught this only with regard to a case &c., i.e. this is meant only when &c.; a. fr.—Part. pass. as ab. Nidd. 22ᵇ, a. fr. במחלוקת שנויה, v. מַחֲלוֹקֶת.
- 1. to be repeated. Snh. 59ᵃ ונִישְׁנֵית, v. נֹחַ. Ḥull. 63ᵇ למה נִשְׁנוּ בבהמה וכ׳ why are the laws of clean and unclean animals repeated (in Deut.)? With reference to quadrupeds, on account of hassh’suʿah (Deut. XIV, 7, which is not found in Lev. XI, 4) &c., v. שְׁסוּעָה; Bekh. 6ᵇ; a. e. e.g. Deuteronomy 14:7
- 2. to be taught. B. Mets. 33ᵇ; B. Kam. 94ᵇ, a. e. בימי רבי נשנית משנה זו this Mishnah was taught (originated) in Rabbi’s days. Ber. 28ᵃ, v. עֵדוּת; a. e.
- to teach (Mishnah &c.). Lam. R. to I, 6 הַשְׁנֵינִי פרק וכ׳, v. קָרָא II; a. e.
- 1. to repeat, to come a second time. Y. Snh. III, 21ᵇ bot. לְשַׁנֹּות, v. טַעֲנָה. Num. R. s. 420 ולא שִׁינְּתָה, v. שָׁלַשׁ.
- 2. to change, vary, modify; to make a distinction. B. Mets. VI, 2 כל המְשַׁנֶּה ידיו וכ׳, v. יָד. Snh. 92ᵇ אפי׳ … לא יְשַׁנֶּה אדם את עצמו וכ׳ even in time of danger (persecution) a man must not change himself from (disguise the insignia of) his office. Yeb. 65ᵇ מותר … לשנות וכ׳ one may modify (the report of a person’s utterances) in the interest of peace. Ib. גדול … הקב"ה ש׳ בו וכ׳ peace is a great thing, for even the Lord modified (Sarah’s words) for its sake (ref. to Gen. XVIII, 12 a. 13). Y. Pes. IV, 30ᵈ top אל תְּשַׁנּוּ מנהג וכ׳ change not the usage of your fathers &c. Gen. R. s. 48 זה אחד … שׁשִׁינּוּ וכ׳ this is one of the things which they (the seventy translators) changed for king Ptolemee. Sabb. 10ᵇ לעולם אל יְשַׁנֶּה אדם בנו בין הבנים a man must never distinguish his son among his sons (favor one son more than the others); Gen. R. s. 84. Bets. 30ᵃ אם אי אפשר לשנות if it is not possible to do the thing in a different manner (so as to be reminded that it is a Holy Day). Tanḥ. Nitsabim 3 כבר … שלא אֲשׁנֶּה בכם וכ׳ I have sworn to you that I will not change my relation to you &c. Yalk. Mal. 589 מי שי׳ במי which of us changed his conduct towards the other?; המקום לא שי׳ בישראל God has not changed his relation to Israel; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְשׁוּנֶּה; f. מְשׁוּנָּה. Y. Taan. I, end, 64ᵈ עורב יצא מש׳ מן הבריות the raven came out of the ark looking different from all other creatures (black). Shek. V, 2, v. רִצְפָה. Sabb. 56ᵃ (ref. to II Sam. XII, 9) מש׳ רעה זו וכ׳ this evil deed is different from all &c. Ib. 156ᵇ מיתה מש׳ a strange (unnatural, sudden) death; Sot. 35ᵃ; a. fr.—Deut. R. s. 9 ראה אותו מש׳ he saw him (the angel of death) looking strange (excited); מפני מה אתה מש׳ why art thou excited? e.g. Genesis 18:12
- to be changed, different. Snh. 38ᵃ בשלשה … מִשְׁתַּנֶּה מחבירו וכ׳ by three things one man is distinguishable from another: by his voice &c. Pes. X, 4 (116ᵃ) מה נ׳ הלילה וכ׳ why is this night different from all other nights? Snh. 71ᵇ [read:] הואיל ונ׳ דינו ונִשְׁתַּנֵית מיתתו because his (the proselyte’s) legal status is different, and the mode of capital punishment is different for him. Sabb. 53ᵇ נִשְׁתַּנּוּ לו סדרי וכ׳ the order of nature had to be changed for him. R. Hash. 19ᵃ מה נִישְׁתַּנִּינוּ מכל וכ׳ wherein are we different from any other nation or tongue that you decree for us such hard decrees?; a. e.
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The 155 distinct written forms H8141 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 95 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 619 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 647 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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- Genesis 1:14
- Exodus 6:16
- Leviticus 9:3
- Numbers 1:1
- Deuteronomy 1:3
- Joshua 5:6
- Judges 2:8
- Ruth 1:4
- 1 Samuel 1:7
- 2 Samuel 2:10
- 1 Kings 2:11
- 2 Kings 1:17
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