שְׁנָהshᵉnâh

year (Ezra 5:13; Ezra 6:3; Daniel 7:1; Ezra 4:24; Ezra 6:15)

Pronunciation: shen-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8140

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 7 times in the Bible.

  • Ezra 4:24 The Rebuilding Resumes So the work on the Temple of God in Jerusalem had stopped, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia.
  • Ezra 5:11 “This was their answer: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the Temple that was built here many years ago by a great king of Israel.
  • Ezra 5:13 However, King Cyrus of Babylon, during the first year of his reign, issued a decree that the Temple of God should be rebuilt.
  • Ezra 6:3 “In the first year of King Cyrus’s reign, a decree was sent out concerning the Temple of God at Jerusalem. “Let the Temple be rebuilt on the site where Jews used to offer their sacrifices, using the original foundations. Its height will be ninety feet, and its width will be ninety feet.
  • Ezra 6:15 The Temple was completed on March 12, during the sixth year of King Darius’s reign.
  • Daniel 5:31 And Darius the Mede took over the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
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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).