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Year

שְׁנָהStrong’s H8141

shenah (she-nah)

Appears in 647 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Shenah is the Hebrew word usually translated “year”, “years” and “years of”. It appears in 647 verses of the Old Testament.

“In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.”
Daniel 1:1 KJV
Meaning
  1. Year
How it's translated
  • year 374
  • years 128
  • in year 65
  • a year 54
  • in the year 53
  • years of 26
  • the year 21
  • year its 20

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

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 103
  • Numbers 82
  • 2 Kings 62
  • 2 Chronicles 57
  • Leviticus 41
  • 1 Kings 38

32 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 647 verses, by book
Ruth 1
1:4
Ecclesiastes 4
6:36:611:812:1
Joel 2
2:22:25
Micah 1
6:6
Habakkuk 1
3:2
Haggai 3
1:11:152:10
Malachi 1
3:4
Hebrew 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.]

  1. 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.
  2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution; as the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
  3. The time in which the fixed states make a revolution, is called the great year
  4. 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.