Thousands
שִׁנְאָןStrong’s H8136shinan (shin-an)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shinan is the Hebrew word usually translated “repetition”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.”
Meaning
- Repetitionrepetitions, twice-told repetition, twice ten thousands, thousands of repetitions, twice-told thousands
How it's translated
- repetition 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁנְאָן shinan · thousands
1) repetition 1a) repetitions, twice-told repetition, twice ten thousands, thousands of repetitions, twice-told thousands 1a1) myriads (in effect)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thousand” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THOU'SAND, adjective
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- Denoting the number of ten hundred.
- Proverbially, denoting a great number indefinitely.
All definitions and other forms of “thousand”
THOU'SAND, noun
The number of ten hundred.
- “A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand” Psalms 91:7
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.