שָׁנָה
shânâh · shaw-naw'
to fold, i.e. duplicate (literally or figuratively); by implication, to transmute (transitive or intransitive)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to fold, i.e. duplicate (literally or figuratively); by implication, to transmute (transitive or intransitive)
- to fold, i.e. duplicate (literally or figuratively)
- by implication, to transmute (transitive or intransitive)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: do (speak, strike) again, alter, double, (be given to) change, disguise, (be) diverse, pervert, prefer, repeat, return, do the second time.
Letters
- 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)
to consume, to destroy › the seed, life continuing › to reveal, behold
To consume, to destroy of the seed, life continuing that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׁנָה 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
22 occurrences · 22 OT · 0 NT · 22 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- was doubled1 · 5%
- and he changed1 · 5%
- and i will not smite him the second time1 · 5%
- and struck him not again1 · 5%
- i pray thee, and disguise1 · 5%
- do it the second time1 · 5%
- and they did it the second time1 · 5%
- if ye do so again1 · 5%
- being diverse1 · 5%
- and he preferred1 · 5%
- are diverse1 · 5%
- thou changest1 · 5%
- they spake not again1 · 5%
- when he changed1 · 5%
- nor alter1 · 5%
- but he that repeateth1 · 5%
- not with them that are given to change1 · 5%
- returneth1 · 5%
- and pervert1 · 5%
- to change1 · 5%
- and changed1 · 5%
- i change1 · 5%
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.