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2 Kings 11:4

“And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the Lord, and shewed them the king’s son.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

שָׁנֶהshâneh · shaw-neh'
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
בַ — preposition with definite article
שָּׁנָ֣ה — common noun, feminine, singular, absolute
Code HC/Rd/Ncfsa
Usage: Occurs 880 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 1:14 Genesis 5:3 Genesis 5:4 Genesis 5:5 Genesis 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.

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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.