שֵׁנִי
shênîy · H8145 · Hebrew · 157 occurrences
Meanings
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second
State in which a countable entity is the second in a range
ExamplesGenesis 1:8 God called the expanse “heaven.” And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 4:19 Lamech took two wives for himself: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.
Genesis 6:16 “You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and put the door of the ark on the side; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
9 occurrences in 8 groups
- אֲמַרְיָהAmariah 2
- יְהוֹיָקִיםJehoiakim 1
- יוֹםday, time 1
- יְעוּשׁJeush 1
- יִשִּׁיָּהIsshiah 1
- אֲבִינָדָבAbinadab 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
- צָוָהto give orders 1
What it is said to bePredicate
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- אַיִןthere is no, not 2
- גְּדַּלְיָהGedaliah 1
- דָנִיֵּאלDaniel 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
5 occurrences in 5 groups
- זִיזָהZizah 1
- חִלְקִיָּהHilkiah 1
- יְדִיעֲאֵלJediael 1
- יְהוֹזָבָדJozabad 1
- עֹבַדְיָהObadiah 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
9 occurrences in 1 groups
- שֵׁםname 9
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 2 words
- δεύτερος deúteros · G1208 · second, in the second place, secondly
- Greek δεύτερος (deúteros, G1208) is the standard ordinal-numeral translation equivalent of Hebrew שֵׁנִי (shênîy, H8145), both denoting 'second' in sequential/ordinal contexts across time, place, and rank domains with direct lexical correspondence.
- תִּנְיָן tinyân · H8578 · second
- Aramaic cognate reflex of Hebrew שֵׁנִי, both denoting 'second' with shared etymological root.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Quantity002001001046
- This ordinal numeral denotes the second in a sequence, as in Genesis 1:8's account of the evening and morning of a second day.
- Frequency002001003009
- This domain reflects this word's sense of "again" or "a second time," marking a repeated occurrence, elsewhere in its occurrences rather than being distinctly illustrated by the ordinal-counting citations sampled here.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8145. sheni שֵׁנִי masculine שֵׁנִית feminine157 adjective ordinal number second; —…
שֵׁנִי masculine שֵׁנִית feminine157
adjective ordinal number second; — הַשֵּׁנִי בַּיּוֺם Exo 2:13 +, etc. (שֵׁנִי82t. + Neh 3:30, read שֵׁנִית; read וְהַשֵּׁנִי also 1Ch 6:13 for ושני); הַשֵּׁנִית בַּשָּׁנָה Gen 47:18 +, etc. (שֵׁנִית72t. + Neh 3:30 see above), שׁ יָמִים ׳שִׁבְעַת Lev 13:5; Leviticus 13:93; Lev 13:54 a second heptad of days; שֵׁנִית = a second time Gen 22:15-16t. + (= again, of similar — not identical — act, or another point in a series) Eze 4:6; Mal 2:13, וְהַשֵּׁנִית 2Sa 16:19; masculine plural שְׁנִיִּם Num 2:16 they shall set out as second, but Gen 6:16 second stories (in ark).
תנא (ᵑ7 Syriac; = Biblical Hebrew II. שֵׁנִי שְׁנַיִם, שָׁנָה,).
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
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
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