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Esther 9:1
“Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)” (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
- בִ — preposition
- שְׁנֵים֩ — cardinal number, masculine, dual, absolute
- 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.