Original Language Studio
Genesis 7:11
“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.” (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
- בִּ — preposition
- שְׁנַ֨ת — 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.