שִׁנְאָן
shinʼân · H8136 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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thousands upon thousands
Literally: thousands of repetition; hence, probably: state in which countable objects are multiple thousands in number
ExamplesPsalm 68:17 The chariots of God are myriads, thousands upon thousands; The Lord is among them as at Sinai, in holiness.
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶלֶףthousand 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Quantity002001001046
- This rare, difficult word appears within a numerical expression describing an immense host, as in Psalm 68:17's description of the chariots of God as myriads, thousands upon thousands — traditionally rendered "angels" in some versions, though its classification here reflects its function within this numeral phrase.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8136. shinan שִׁנְאָן noun [masculine] repetition (?); — שִׁנְאָ֑ן אַלְפֵי Psa 68:18…
שִׁנְאָן noun [masculine] repetition (?); — שִׁנְאָ֑ן אַלְפֵי Psa 68:18 thousands of repetition, i.e. thousands twice-told, Che; redoubled, Dr, i.e. thousands on thousands (Du, reading אֶלֶף, as שִׁנָּא with suffix removed them, treating בק מסיני אדני ׳שׁנאן as gloss).
שֵׁנָה see √יָשֵׁן. שֶׁנְהַבִּים see √שׁנן
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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