shena (to change)

Meaning

To change, be altered, be changed(P'al) to change, be changed · (Pael) to change, transform, frustrate · (Ithpael) to be changed · (Aphel) to change, alter

How it's translated

to change 3
different 3
changing 2
they were changed 2
he will violate 1
to violate 1
it will be changed 1
it was changed 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Daniel 19
Ezra 2

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 2:21In contextAnd he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
Daniel 3:19In contextThen was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
Daniel 3:27In contextAnd the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
Daniel 3:28In contextThen Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
Daniel 4:16In contextLet his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.
Daniel 5:6In contextThen the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

All 21 verses, by book

Ezra 2: 6:11 6:12
Daniel 19: 2:9 2:21 3:19 3:27 3:28 4:16 5:6 5:9 5:10 6:8 6:15 6:17 7:3 7:7 7:19 7:23 7:24 7:25 7:28

Aramaic dictionary

שְׁנָא shena · to change

1) to change, be altered, be changed 1a) (P'al) to change, be changed 1b) (Pael) to change, transform, frustrate 1b1) different (participle) 1c) (Ithpael) to be changed 1d) (Aphel) to change, alter

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “change” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CHANGE, verb transitive

To cause to turn or pass from one state to another; to alter, or make different; to vary in external form, or in essence; as, to change the color or shape of a thing; to change the countenance; to change the heart or life.
To put one thing in the place of another; to shift; as, to change the clothes“Be clean and change your garments” Genesis 35:2
To quit one thing or state for another; followed by for; as, persons educated in a particular religion do not readily change it for another.
To give and take reciprocally; as, will you change conditions with me?

All definitions and other forms of “change”

To barter; to exchange goods; as, to change a coach for a chariot.
To quit, as one place for another; as, to change lodgings.
To give one kind of money for another; to alter the form or kind of money, by receiving the value in a different kind, as to change bank notes for silver; or to give pieces of a larger denomination for an equivalent in pieces of smaller denomination, as to change an eagle for dollars, or a sovereign for sixpences, or to change a dollar into cents; or on the other hand, to change dollars for or into eagles, giving money of smaller denomination for larger.
To become acid or tainted; to turn from a natural state of sweetness and purity; as, the wine is changed; thunder and lightning are said to change milk.

CHANGE, verb intransitive

To be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes change for the better, often for the worse.
To pass the sun, as the moon in its orbit; as, the moon will change the 14th of this month.

CHANGE, noun

Any variation or alteration in form, state, quality, or essence; or a passing from one state or form to another; as a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles.
A succession of one thing in the place of another; vicissitude; as a change of seasons; a change of objects on a journey; a change of scenes.
A revolution; as a change of government.
A passing by the sun, and the beginning of a new monthly revolution; as a change of the moon.
A different state by removal; novelty; variety.
Alteration in the order of ringing bells; variety of sounds.
That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another.
Small coins of money, which may be given for larger pieces.
The balance of money paid beyond the price of goods purchased.
The dissolution of the body; death.“All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come” Job 14:14
change for exchange, a place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions.
In arithmetic, permutation; variation of numbers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.