[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94-4/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ש](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/shin/)‎ / שָׁנָה‎

# שָׁנָה

Biblical Hebrew

**repeat** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

repeat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁנָה³: vb. repeat, do again [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. repeat, do again (NH id.; Ecclus 42:1; Arabic ثَنَى bend, fold, double; Aramaic תְּנָא repeat, also teach, ܬܢܳܐ; Assyrian šanû, especially Pi. repeat, relate, cf. ScheilZA v (1890), 409 (Dl thinks denom.); on שׁ׳ as √ of שְׁנַיִם two, v. PhilippiZMG xxxii (1878), 77 Baib. xii (1887), 603);— Pf. 3 ms. שׁ׳ 2 S 20:10; Impf. 1 s. אֶשְׁנֶה 1 S 26:8, etc.; Imv. mpl. שְׁנוּ 1 K 18:34; Pt. שֹׁנֶה Pr 17:9; 26:11;—do again: וַיַּכֵּהוּ … וְלֹא שׁ׳ לוֹ 2 S 20:10, cf. 1 S 26:8; abs. 1 K 18:34(×2) Ne 13:21; = speak again Jb 29:22 + 40:5 according to many moderns (אשׁנה for MT אענה); שׁ׳ בְּדָבָר Pr 17:9 repeat with a thing, keep talking about it (שנות דבר Ecclus 42:1); 26:11 a dullard repeats with (ב) his folly, does it over agian (learns nothing by experience). Inf. cstr. וְעַל הִשָּׁנוֹת הַחֲלוֹם אֶל־פַּרְעֹה פַּעֲמָ֑יִם Gn 41:32 (E) concerning the dream’s being repeated, etc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they did \[it\] again (2); I will repeat (1); \[one who\] repeats (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 17:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.9/#tree)

מְֽכַסֶּה־פֶּ֭שַׁע מְבַקֵּ֣שׁ אַהֲבָ֑ה וְשֹׁנֶ֥ה בְ֝דָבָ֗ר מַפְרִ֥יד אַלּֽוּף׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].conceals a.transgression \[is\].seeking love and \[one.who\].repeats (in).a matter \[is\].separating a.close.friend

*JPS 1917:* He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that harpeth on a matter estrangeth a familiar friend.

[Job 29:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.22/#tree)

אַחֲרֵ֣י דְ֭בָרִי לֹ֣א יִשְׁנ֑וּ וְ֝עָלֵ֗ימוֹ תִּטֹּ֥ף מִלָּתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* after word my not they.did.\[it\].again and on them it.dropped speech my

*JPS 1917:* After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5e0_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_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).