Hebrew noun (Aramaic, feminine) · H8140
שְׁנָה
shenahshen-aw'
year
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shᵉnâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8140is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8140
{a year (as a revolution of time)}
The King James renders it: year.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
shenah is rendered "year". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Five of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:24Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra 4:24שְׁנַ֣ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- in year3
- year2
- years2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁנַיִם | shenayim | two | Uses768 |
| שְׁנָא | shena | to change | Uses21 |
| שְׁנִינָה | sheninah | taunt | Uses4 |
| שְׁנָה | shenah | sleep | Uses1 |
| שְׁנָת | shenath | sleep | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בִּשְׁנַ֣ת2
- בִּשְׁנַ֨ת1
- שְׁנִ֖ין1
- שְׁנִ֣ין1
- שְׁנַ֣ת1
- שְׁנַת־1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3AR/Ncfsc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2ANcfsc
- noun · masculine plural2ANcmpa
Ezra
five uses
Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- שְׁנַ֣תshenatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: year
And this is the answer they returned: “We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.
- שְׁנִ֣יןsheninnoun · masculine pluraltagged: years
In his first year, however, Cyrus king of Babylon issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.
- בִּשְׁנַ֣תbishnatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in year
In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,
- בִּשְׁנַ֨תbishnatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in year
And this temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
- שְׁנַת־shenat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: year
Daniel
two uses
and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
- שְׁנִ֖יןsheninnoun · masculine pluraltagged: years
In the first year of the reign of Belshazzar over Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he lay on his bed. He wrote down the dream, and this is the summary of his account.
- בִּשְׁנַ֣תbishnatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in year
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.