שָׁנָהshânâh

שָׁנָה: change

Pronunciation: shaw-naw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8138

Meanings

Qal: change (Malachi 3:6; Lamentations 4:1; Psalms 77:11)

Pi`el: change, alter (Jeremiah 52:33; 2 Kings 25:29; Proverbs 31:5)

Pu`al: usually is changed, mollified (Ecclesiastes 8:1)

Hithpa`el: disguise thyself (1 Kings 14:2)

שָׁנָה: repeat, do again

Qal: do again (2 Samuel 20:10; 1 Samuel 26:8; 1 Kings 18:34)

Niph`al: being repeated (Genesis 41:32)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 22 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 41:32 As for having two similar dreams, it means that these events have been decreed by God, and he will soon make them happen.
  • 1 Samuel 21:13 So he pretended to be insane, scratching on doors and drooling down his beard.
  • 1 Samuel 26:8 “God has surely handed your enemy over to you this time!” Abishai whispered to David. “Let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I won’t need to strike twice!”
  • 2 Samuel 20:10 Amasa didn’t notice the dagger in his left hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach with it so that his insides gushed out onto the ground. Joab did not need to strike again, and Amasa soon died. Joab and his brother Abishai left him lying there and continued after Sheba.
  • 1 Kings 14:2 So Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise yourself so that no one will recognize you as my wife. Then go to the prophet Ahijah at Shiloh—the man who told me I would become king.
  • 1 Kings 18:34 After they had done this, he said, “Do the same thing again!” And when they were finished, he said, “Now do it a third time!” So they did as he said,
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).