To change
שָׁנָהStrong’s H8138shanah (sha-nah)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shanah is the Hebrew word usually translated “differing”, “being repeated of” and “changed it”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.”
Meaning
- Change, alter(Qal) to change · (Piel) to change, alter · (Pual) to be changed, mollified · (Hithpael) to disguise oneself
- To repeat, do again(Qal) to do again · (Niphal) to be repeated
How it's translated
- differing 2
- being repeated of 1
- and he changed it 1
- i will repeat 1
- he repeated 1
- and you will disguise yourself 1
- do again 1
- and they did again 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 4
- Esther 3
- 1 Samuel 2
- 1 Kings 2
- Job 2
- Psalms 2
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 21:13And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
- 1 Samuel 26:8Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
- 2 Samuel 20:10But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
- 1 Kings 14:2And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.
- 1 Kings 18:34And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
- Nehemiah 13:21Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁנָה shanah · to change
1) change, alter 1a) (Qal) to change 1b) (Piel) to change, alter 1c) (Pual) to be changed, mollified 1d) (Hithpael) to disguise oneself
שָׁנָה shanah · to repeat
1) to repeat, do again 1a) (Qal) to do again 1b) (Niphal) to be repeated
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.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.