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Ezra 3:8
“Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the Lord.” (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
- בַ — preposition with definite article
- שָּׁנָ֣ה — common noun, feminine, singular, absolute
- 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.