שָׁנֶה
shâneh · shaw-neh'
a year (as a revolution of time)
Lexicon
Derivation: (in plural or (feminine) שָׁנָה; from H8138 (שָׁנָה);
a year (as a revolution of time)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [phrase] whole age, [idiom] long, [phrase] old, year([idiom] -ly).
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 שָׁנֶה 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
877 occurrences · 877 OT · 0 NT · 161 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- years394 · 51%
- year241 · 31%
- hundred23 · 3%
- in the year14 · 2%
- of the year13 · 2%
- of years10 · 1%
- by year9 · 1%
- of the years7 · 1%
- an hundred6 · 1%
- and the years5 · 1%
- in a year5 · 1%
- for a year4 · 1%
- the years4 · 1%
- the year4 · 1%
- to year4 · 1%
- two years4 · 1%
- in the twenty3 · 0%
- in the thirty3 · 0%
- this year3 · 0%
- the same year2 · 0%
- even unto the year2 · 0%
- and as a yearly2 · 0%
- two hundred2 · 0%
- sixty2 · 0%
- and years2 · 0%
Where it is used, by book.
- Genesis161
- Exodus30
- Leviticus59
- Numbers92
- Deuteronomy29
- Joshua6
- Judges24
- Ruth1
- 1 Samuel10
- 2 Samuel20
- 1 Kings58
- 2 Kings104
- 1 Chronicles13
- 2 Chronicles78
- Ezra5
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.