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2 Chronicles 36:22
“Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H8141 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a year (as a revolution of time)
- Derivation
- (in plural or (feminine) שָׁנָה; from H8138 (שָׁנָה);
- KJV renderings
- [phrase] whole age, [idiom] long, [phrase] old, year([idiom] -ly).
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- בִ — preposition
- שְׁנַ֣ת — common noun, feminine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 880 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 1:14Genesis 5:3Genesis 5:4Genesis 5:5Genesis 5:5
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 שָׁנֶה 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.