מִשְׁנֶה
mishneh · mish-neh'
properly, a repetition, i.e. a duplicate (copy of a document), or a double (in amount); by implication, a second (in order, rank, age, quality or location)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H8138 (שָׁנָה);
properly, a repetition, i.e. a duplicate (copy of a document), or a double (in amount); by implication, a second (in order, rank, age, quality or location)
- properly, a repetition, i.e. a duplicate (copy of a document), or a double (in amount)
- by implication, a second (in order, rank, age, quality or location)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: college, copy, double, fatlings, next, second (order), twice as much.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to consume, to destroy › the seed, life continuing › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to consume, to destroy of the seed, life continuing that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִשְׁנֶה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
35 occurrences · 35 OT · 0 NT · 25 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- double4 · 13%
- the second3 · 9%
- and next2 · 6%
- in the college2 · 6%
- in the second1 · 3%
- and it shall be twice1 · 3%
- twice1 · 3%
- a double1 · 3%
- him a copy1 · 3%
- a copy1 · 3%
- of his second1 · 3%
- and of the fatlings1 · 3%
- and i shall be next1 · 3%
- and his second1 · 3%
- of the second order1 · 3%
- the next1 · 3%
- of the second1 · 3%
- that was next1 · 3%
- was the next1 · 3%
- him in the second1 · 3%
- of a second1 · 3%
- was second1 · 3%
- was next1 · 3%
- twice as much1 · 3%
- ye shall have double1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.