Second
שֵׁנִיStrong’s H8145sheni (she-ni)
Appears in 151 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sheni is the Hebrew word usually translated “second” and “on the second”. It appears in 151 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.”
Meaning
- Secondsecond (the ordinal number) · again (a second time) · another, other (something as distinct from something else)
How it's translated
- second 101
- the second 28
- a second 24
- and second 1
- and the second 1
- on the second 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 26
- 1 Chronicles 18
- Genesis 13
- Numbers 13
- 1 Kings 13
- Nehemiah 9
26 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 4:12In contextAnd I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
- Zechariah 6:2In contextIn the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
- Zechariah 11:14In contextThen I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
- Genesis 1:8And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
- Genesis 2:13And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
- Genesis 4:19And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
All 151 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שֵׁנִי sheni · second
1) second 1a) second (the ordinal number) 1b) again (a second time) 1c) another, other (something as distinct from something else)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “second” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEC'OND, adjective
[L. secundus; L. sequor, to follow. See Seek.]
- That immediately follows the first; the mext following the first in order of place or time; the ordinal of two.
- Next in value, power, excellence, dignity or rank; inferior.
All definitions and other forms of “second”
SEC'OND, noun
- One who attends another in a duel, to aid him, mark out the ground or destance, and see that all proceedings between the parties are fair.
- One that supports or maintains another; that which supports
- The sixtieth part of a minute or of a degree, that is, the second minute or small division next to the hour.
- In music, an interval of a conjoint degree, being the difference between any sound and the next nearest sound above ar below it.
SEC'OND, verb transitive
[L. secundo.]
- To follow in the next place.
- To support; to lend aid to the attempt of another; to assist' to forward; to promote; to encourage; to act as the maintainer.
- In legislation, to support, as a motion or the mover.
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.