שֵׁנִי sheni

Hebrew word for “second” · Strong’s H8145 · used 156 times in 151 verses

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Meaning

1) second; 1a) second (the ordinal number); 1b) again (a second time); 1c) another, other (something as distinct from something else)

How it is translated

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

• second 130
• second time 19
• second thing 2
• second decks 1
• second bird 1
• second son 1
• second day 1
• second person 1

Where it is used

Also in 14 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Nehemiah 3 (7), Leviticus 13 (6), 1 Kings 6 (6), Exodus 26 (5), Exodus 36 (5), 1 Kings 7 (5), Exodus 29 (3), Judges 6 (3), 1 Chronicles 23 (3), 1 Chronicles 26 (3)

Forms

• השׁני 72
• השׁנית 39
• שׁנית 31
• שׁני 10
• שׁנים 1
• ושׁנים 1
• והשׁנית 1
• בשׁני 1

Words used with it

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

• אֶחָד echad “one” 41
• שְׁלִישִׁי shelishi “third” 17
• חֹדֶשׁ chodesh “month” 19
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 17
• שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 16
• עָשָׂר asar “ten” 12
• עַמּוּד ammud “pillar” 9
• אַרְבַּע arba “four” 11
• מִדָּה middah “measure” 8
• לוּלַי lulay “loop” 6
• רְבִיעִי revii “fourth” 8
• אַמָּה ammah “cubit” 9

Key verses

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

• Genesis 7:11 — In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken…
• Leviticus 13:6 — And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall…
• Numbers 1:1 — And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after…
• 1 Kings 6:1 — And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s…
• 1 Chronicles 29:22 — And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto the…
• 2 Chronicles 30:15 — Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought…
• Ezra 3:8 — Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of…
• Ecclesiastes 4:8 — There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with…
• Isaiah 11:11 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from…
• Isaiah 37:30 — And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third…
• Daniel 8:3 — Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than…
• Malachi 2:13 — And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any…

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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.