Shenah שְׁנָה
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| שְׁנָה | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | shenah |
| Strong's number | H8140 |
| Language | Aramaic |
| Part of speech | feminine noun |
| Gloss | year |
| Occurrences | 7 in 7 verses |
| Most frequent in | Ezra (5) |
Shenah (Aramaic שְׁנָה, Strong's H8140) is an Aramaic feminine noun meaning “year”. It occurs 7 times in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
year
Aramaic of sha.neh (שָׁנָה "year" H8141)
Aramaic of sha.neh (שָׁנָה "year" H8141)
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | year (5), years (2) |
|---|---|
| BSB | year (5), years (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Shenah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Ezra
- Ezra 4:24Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.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 5:11And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.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.
- Ezra 5:13But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.In his first year, however, Cyrus king of Babylon issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.
- Ezra 6:3In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;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,
- Ezra 6:15And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.And this temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
Daniel
- Daniel 5:31And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
- Daniel 7:1In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.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.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).