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2 Kings 8:16
“And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.” (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.