שָׁנָה shaneh

Hebrew word for “year” · Strong’s H8141 · used 877 times in 647 verses

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Meaning

1) year; 1a) as division of time;

How it is translated

Glosses given for shaneh in context, with how often each is used:

• years 496
• year 363
• two years 12
• this year 3
• like the years 2
• like years 1

Where it is used

Also in 20 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 5 (28), Numbers 7 (26), Leviticus 25 (22), Genesis 11 (18), Numbers 1 (16), Genesis 41 (14), Numbers 29 (10), 2 Kings 15 (10), Leviticus 27 (8), Jeremiah 52 (8)

Forms

• שׁנה 419
• שׁנים 126
• בשׁנת 72
• בשׁנה 68
• שׁנת 31
• השׁנה 24
• שׁני 20
• שׁנתו 17
• ובשׁנה 13
• שׁנתים 11

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shaneh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מָלַךְ malakh “to reign” 106
• עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 97
• עָשָׂר asar “ten” 92
• חֹדֶשׁ chodesh “month” 71
• שֶׁבַע sheva “seven” 76
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 80
• שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 84
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 66
• כֶּבֶשׂ keves “lamb” 53
• שָׁלֹשׁ shalosh “three” 70
• שְׁלֹשִׁים sheloshim “thirty” 57
• יְרוּשָׁלִַם yerushalaim “Jerusalem” 75

Key verses

The verses using shaneh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 1:14 — And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days,…
• Genesis 17:1 — And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
• Deuteronomy 8:2 — And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in…
• Judges 5:31 — So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
• 1 Kings 17:1 — And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew…
• 2 Kings 17:6 — In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of…
• Ecclesiastes 12:1 — Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
• Isaiah 6:1 — In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
• Ezekiel 38:8 — After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many…
• Micah 6:6 — Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
• Habakkuk 3:2 — O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember…
• Zechariah 14:16 — And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.