Word

שְׁנָה

shᵉnâh · H8140 · Aramaic · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

year

The time period representing a full cycle of seasons, calculated as a sequence of twelve months, though adjusted on a regular basis by adding a thirteenth month

Examples
Ezra 4:24 Then work on the house of God in Jerusalem was discontinued, and it was stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra 5:11 “So they answered us as follows, saying, ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.
Ezra 5:13 ‘However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

7 occurrences in 6 groups

חַדa 3
דֵּןthis 1
שַׂגִּיאexceeding 1
שֵׁתsix 1
שִׁתִּיןthreescore 1
תְּרֵיןsecond 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הוּאhe, she, it 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 6
עַדand 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בַּרson 1
קַדְמָהafore 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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In the other Testament 1 word

ἔτος étos · G2094 · year, a very long time: Greek ἔτος (étos, G2094) is the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew שְׁנָה (shᵉnâh, H8140), both denoting the concept 'year' as a unit of time measurement.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Time002002002010: Ezra 6:15 recounts that the temple "was completed...it was the sixth year of the reign of King Darius."

Word family 9 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

שָׁנָה shânâh · H8138 · to be different, to change, to be affected · 23×שָׁנֶה shâneh · H8141 · year · 876×שְׁנַיִם shᵉnayim · H8147 · two · 768×שֵׁנִי shênîy · H8145 · second · 157×מִשְׁנֶה mishneh · H4932 · double, second born · 35×שְׁנָהshᵉnâh · H8140תְּרֵין tᵉrêyn · H8648 · second, twelve, two · 4×תִּנְיָן tinyân · H8578 · second · 1×תִּנְיָנוּת tinyânûwth · H8579 · again · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8140. shenah I. [שְׁנָה] noun feminine year (see Biblical Hebrew שָׁנָה, √ I. [שָׁנָה]);…

H8140. shenah
I. [שְׁנָה] noun feminine year (see Biblical Hebrew שָׁנָה, √ I. [שָׁנָה]); — construct ׳שׁ ׃שְׁנַת חֲדָה = first year Ezr 5:13; Ezr 6:3; Dan 7:1; ׳שׁ תַּרְתֵּין Ezr 4:24 second year; ׳שׁ שֵׁת Ezr 6:15; plural וְת שִׁתִּין ׳שְׁנִין Dan 6:1 62years; ׳שׁ שַׂגִּיאָן Ezr 5:11. — I.[[שְׁנָה ] see ישׁן.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Time0 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0