שְׁנַיִם shenayim

Hebrew word for “two” · Strong’s H8147 · used 768 times in 646 verses

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Meaning

1) two; 1a) two (the cardinal number);

How it is translated

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

• two 557
• two plus 129
• both 41
• two wings 7
• two people 5
• two times 5
• twofold 4
• like two 3
• two things 3
• day two plus 2
• more than both 2
• two sons 1

Where it is used

Also in 19 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 7 (31), 1 Chronicles 25 (23), Nehemiah 7 (13), Ezra 2 (12), Exodus 28 (11), Numbers 29 (10), 1 Kings 7 (9), Numbers 28 (8), Exodus 39 (7), Ruth 1 (7)

Forms

• שׁנים 156
• שׁני 145
• שׁתי 94
• שׁתים 75
• ושׁנים 61
• שׁניהם 58
• ושׁני 30
• ושׁתים 27
• ושׁתי 26
• לשׁני 17

Words used with it

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

• עָשָׂר asar “ten” 133
• אֶחָד echad “one” 124
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 84
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 62
• עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 47
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 62
• אַיִל ayil “ram” 40
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 47
• שְׁלֹשִׁים sheloshim “thirty” 36
• בָּקָר baqar “cattle” 35
• כֶּבֶשׂ keves “lamb” 31
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 45

Key verses

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

• Genesis 35:22 — And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob…
• Deuteronomy 32:30 — How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
• 1 Kings 12:28 — Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel,…
• 1 Kings 18:21 — And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the…
• 1 Kings 21:13 — And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the…
• Psalms 60:1 — [To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of…
• Isaiah 6:2 — Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
• Jeremiah 2:13 — For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no…
• Jeremiah 33:24 — Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my…
• Daniel 9:25 — Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks,…
• Daniel 9:26 — And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the…
• Haggai 1:1 — In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the…

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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.