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2 Kings 17:6

“In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.” (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
  • בִּ — preposition
  • שְׁנַ֨ת — common noun, feminine, singular, construct
Code HR/Ncfsc
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.

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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.