Hebrew

Two

שְׁנַ֫יִםStrong’s H8147

shenayim (she-na-yim)

Appears in 646 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Shenayim is the Hebrew word usually translated “two”, “both of them” and “two of them”. It appears in 646 verses of the Old Testament.

“And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.”

Daniel 2:1 KJV

Meaning

Twotwo (the cardinal number) · second (the ordinal number) · in combination with other numbers · both (a dual number)

How it's translated

two 462
and two 143
both of them 38
two of them 23
for two 15
to two 12
two of 12
in two 11

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

Where it's used most

Numbers 77
Exodus 66
Genesis 58
1 Kings 48
1 Chronicles 41
2 Kings 37

31 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

All 646 verses, by book

Genesis 58: 1:16 2:25 3:7 4:19 5:8 5:18 5:20 5:26 5:28 6:19 6:20 7:2 7:9 7:15 9:22 9:23 10:25 11:20 14:4 17:20 19:1 19:8 19:15 19:16 19:30 19:36 21:27 21:31 22:3 22:6 22:8 24:22 25:16 25:23 27:9 27:45 29:16 31:33 31:37 31:41 32:7 32:10 32:22 33:1 34:25 35:22 40:2 40:5 41:50 42:13 42:32 42:37 44:27 46:27 48:1 48:5 48:13 49:28
Exodus 66: 2:13 4:9 12:7 12:22 12:23 15:27 16:22 18:3 18:6 22:4 22:7 22:9 22:11 24:4 25:12 25:18 25:19 25:22 25:35 26:17 26:19 26:21 26:23 26:24 26:25 27:7 28:7 28:9 28:11 28:12 28:14 28:21 28:23 28:24 28:25 28:26 28:27 29:1 29:3 29:13 29:22 29:38 30:4 31:18 32:15 34:1 34:4 34:29 36:22 36:24 36:26 36:28 36:29 36:30 37:3 37:7 37:8 37:21 37:27 39:4 39:14 39:16 39:17 39:18 39:19 39:20
Leviticus 33: 3:4 3:10 3:15 4:9 5:7 5:11 7:4 8:2 8:16 8:25 12:8 14:4 14:10 14:22 14:49 15:14 15:29 16:1 16:5 16:7 16:8 16:21 20:11 20:12 20:13 20:18 23:13 23:17 23:18 23:19 23:20 24:5 24:6
Numbers 77: 1:35 1:39 1:44 2:21 2:26 3:39 3:43 6:10 7:3 7:7 7:13 7:17 7:19 7:23 7:25 7:29 7:31 7:35 7:37 7:41 7:43 7:47 7:49 7:53 7:55 7:59 7:61 7:65 7:67 7:71 7:73 7:77 7:78 7:79 7:83 7:84 7:86 7:87 7:89 10:2 11:26 12:5 13:23 15:6 17:2 17:6 22:22 25:8 26:14 26:34 26:37 28:3 28:9 28:11 28:12 28:19 28:20 28:27 28:28 29:3 29:9 29:13 29:14 29:17 29:20 29:23 29:26 29:29 29:32 31:5 31:33 31:35 31:38 31:40 33:9 34:15 35:6
Deuteronomy 22: 1:23 3:8 3:21 4:13 4:47 5:22 9:10 9:11 9:15 9:17 10:1 10:3 14:6 17:6 19:15 19:17 21:15 21:17 22:22 22:24 23:18 32:30
Joshua 26: 2:1 2:4 2:10 2:23 3:12 4:2 4:3 4:4 4:8 4:9 4:20 6:22 8:25 9:10 14:3 14:4 15:60 18:24 19:15 19:30 21:7 21:16 21:25 21:27 21:40 24:12
Judges 20: 3:16 7:3 7:25 8:12 9:44 10:3 11:37 11:38 11:39 12:6 15:4 15:13 16:3 16:28 16:29 19:6 19:8 19:29 20:21 21:10
Ruth 8: 1:1 1:2 1:3 1:5 1:7 1:8 1:19 4:11
1 Samuel 29: 1:2 1:3 2:21 2:34 3:11 4:4 4:11 4:17 5:4 6:7 6:10 9:26 10:2 10:4 11:11 13:1 14:11 14:49 18:21 20:11 20:42 23:18 25:18 25:43 27:3 28:8 30:5 30:12 30:18
2 Samuel 19: 1:1 2:2 2:10 2:15 4:2 8:2 8:5 9:13 10:6 12:1 13:6 14:6 15:27 15:36 17:1 17:18 18:24 21:8 23:20
1 Kings 48: 2:5 2:32 2:39 3:16 3:18 3:25 4:7 4:26 5:12 5:14 6:23 6:25 6:32 6:34 7:15 7:16 7:18 7:20 7:24 7:25 7:41 7:42 7:44 8:9 8:63 9:10 10:19 10:20 10:26 11:29 11:30 12:28 14:20 15:25 16:23 16:29 17:12 18:21 18:23 18:31 19:19 20:1 20:15 20:16 20:27 21:10 21:13 22:31
2 Kings 37: 1:14 1:17 2:6 2:7 2:8 2:9 2:11 2:12 2:24 3:1 4:1 4:33 5:22 5:23 6:10 7:14 8:17 8:25 8:26 9:32 10:4 10:8 10:14 11:7 14:1 15:2 15:27 15:32 17:1 17:16 21:1 21:5 21:12 21:19 23:12 25:16 25:27
1 Chronicles 41: 1:19 4:5 6:63 7:2 7:7 9:22 11:21 11:22 12:28 15:10 18:5 19:7 24:12 24:17 25:9 25:10 25:11 25:12 25:13 25:14 25:15 25:16 25:17 25:18 25:19 25:20 25:21 25:22 25:23 25:24 25:25 25:26 25:27 25:28 25:29 25:30 25:31 26:8 26:17 26:18 27:15
2 Chronicles 24: 1:14 3:10 3:15 4:3 4:4 4:12 4:13 4:15 5:10 7:5 9:18 9:19 9:25 13:21 21:5 21:19 21:20 22:2 24:3 26:3 33:1 33:5 33:21 34:3
Ezra 17: 2:3 2:4 2:6 2:10 2:12 2:18 2:24 2:27 2:29 2:37 2:58 2:60 8:24 8:27 8:31 8:35 10:13
Nehemiah 22: 5:14 6:15 7:8 7:9 7:10 7:17 7:24 7:28 7:31 7:33 7:40 7:60 7:62 7:71 7:72 11:12 11:13 11:19 12:31 12:40 13:6 13:20
Esther 9: 2:12 2:21 2:23 3:7 3:13 6:2 8:12 9:1 9:27
Job 5: 9:33 13:20 33:14 40:5 42:7
Psalms 2: 60:1 62:11
Proverbs 8: 17:15 20:10 20:12 24:22 27:3 29:13 30:7 30:15
Ecclesiastes 5: 4:3 4:9 4:11 4:12 11:6
Song of Solomon 2: 4:5 7:3
Isaiah 9: 1:31 6:2 7:4 7:16 7:21 8:14 17:6 47:9 51:19
Jeremiah 10: 2:13 3:14 24:1 33:24 34:18 46:12 52:20 52:21 52:29 52:31
Ezekiel 24: 1:11 1:23 15:4 21:19 21:21 23:2 23:13 29:1 32:1 32:17 33:21 35:10 37:22 40:9 40:39 40:40 41:3 41:18 41:22 41:23 41:24 43:14 43:16 47:13
Daniel 6: 2:1 8:7 9:25 9:26 11:27 12:5
Hosea 1: 10:10
Amos 3: 3:3 3:12 4:8
Jonah 1: 4:11
Haggai 3: 1:1 1:15 2:10
Zechariah 11: 1:1 1:7 4:3 4:11 4:12 4:14 5:9 6:1 6:13 11:7 13:8

Hebrew dictionary

שְׁנַ֫יִם shenayim · two

1) two 1a) two (the cardinal number) 1a1) two, both, double, twice 1b) second (the ordinal number) 1c) in combination with other numbers 1d) both (a dual number)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “two” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

TWO, adjective

[Latin duo.]

One and one. two similar horses used together, are called a span, or a pair.
two is used in composition; as in two-legged.

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.