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1 Kings 7:16
“And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:” (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
- שְׁתֵּ֨י — 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.