Year
שְׁנָהStrong’s H8140shenah (she-nah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shenah is the Aramaic word usually translated “year” and “years”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.”
Meaning
- Year
How it's translated
- in year 3
- year 2
- years 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 5
- Daniel 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 7:1In contextIn the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.
- Ezra 4:24Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- Ezra 5:11And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
- Ezra 5:13But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
- Ezra 6:3In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
- Ezra 6:15And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
Aramaic dictionary
שְׁנָה shenah · year
year Aramaic of sha.neh (שָׁנָה "year" H8141)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “year” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
YEAR, noun
[G.]
- The space or period of time in which the sun moves through the twelve signs of the ecliptic, or whole circle, and returns to the same point.
- The time in which any planet completes a revolution; as the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
- The time in which the fixed states make a revolution, is called the great year
- Years, in the plural, is sometimes equivalent to age or old age; as a man in years.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.