Second
תִּנְיָןStrong’s H8578tinyan (tin-yan)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tinyan is the Aramaic word usually translated “second”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.”
Meaning
- Second
How it's translated
- a second 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
תִּנְיָן tinyan · second
second Aramaic of she.na.yim (שְׁנַ֫יִם "two" H8147)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.