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1 Kings 6:32
“The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H8147 · Hebrew
- Definition
- two; also (as ordinal) twofold
- Derivation
- dual of H8145 (שֵׁנִי); feminine שְׁתַּיִם;
- KJV renderings
- both, couple, double, second, twain, [phrase] twelfth, [phrase] twelve, [phrase] twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- שְׁתֵּי֮ — cardinal number, feminine, dual, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 769 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 1:16Genesis 2:25Genesis 3:7Genesis 4:19Genesis 5:8
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שְׁנַיִם here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.