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# שְׁנָה

Biblical Aramaic

**year** — used 8 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

year [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁנָה²: n.f. year [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. year (v. BH שָׁנָה, √ I. \[שָׁנָה\]);—cstr. שְׁנַת: שׁ׳ חֲדָה = first year Ezr 5:13; 6:3 Dn 7:1; שׁ׳ תַּרְתֵּין Ezr 4:24 second year; שׁ׳ שֵׁת 6:15; pl. שְׁנִין שִׁתִּין וְת׳ Dn 6:1 62 years; שׁ׳ שַׂגִּיאָן Ezr 5:11.—ii. \[שְׁנָה\] v. ישׁן.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: year (4); \[was\] year (1); of years (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.1/#tree)

וְדָרְיָ֙וֶשׁ֙ מָֽדָיָ֔אקַבֵּ֖ל מַלְכוּתָ֑א כְּבַ֥ר שְׁנִ֖ין שִׁתִּ֥ין וְתַרְתֵּֽין׃

*Word for word:* and Darius the Mede he.received the kingdom about a.son of.years sixty and two

*JPS 1917:* And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

[Ezra 6:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.15/#tree)

וְשֵׁיצִיא֙ בַּיְתָ֣ה דְנָ֔ה עַ֛ד י֥וֹם תְּלָתָ֖ה לִירַ֣ח אֲדָ֑ר דִּי־הִ֣יא שְׁנַת־שֵׁ֔ת לְמַלְכ֖וּת דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מַלְכָּֽא׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.was.finished the house this until day three of the.month of.Adar which it \[was\].year six of the.reign of.Darius the king

*JPS 1917:* And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5e0_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5e0_5b8_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).