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# שֵׁנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8145

**second** — used 157 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

second [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8145/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׁנִי: adj.num.ord. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8145/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** m. שֵׁנִית f.157 adj.num.ord. second;—בַּיּוֹם הַשֵּׁנִי Ex 2:13 +, etc. (שֵׁנִי 82 times + Ne 3:30, read שֵׁנִית; read וְהַשֵּׁנִי also 1 Ch 6:13 for ושני); בַּשָּׁנָה הַשֵּׁנִית Gn 47:18 +, etc. (שֵׁנִית 72 times + Ne 3:30 v. supr.), שִׁבְעַת יָמִים שׁ׳ Lv 13:5, 33, 54 a second heptad of days; שֵׁנִית = a second time Gn 22:15 + 16 times + (= again, of similar—not identical—act, or another point in a series) Ez 4:6; Mal 2:13, וְהַשֵּׁנִית 2 S 16:19; †mpl. שְׁנִיִּם Nu 2:16 they shall set out as second, but Gn 6:16 second stories (in ark).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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: second (117); a second \[time\] (19); the second (9).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.13/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֧י שְׁמוּאֵ֛ל הַבְּכֹ֥ר וַשְׁנִ֖י וַאֲבִיָּֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Samuel \[was\].the firstborn Vashni and Abijah

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Samuel: the first-born Vashni; then Abiah.

[Genesis 30:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.12/#tree)

וַתֵּ֗לֶד זִלְפָּה֙ שִׁפְחַ֣ת לֵאָ֔ה בֵּ֥ן שֵׁנִ֖י לְיַעֲקֹֽב׃

*Word for word:* and she.bore Zilpah the.maidservant of.Leah a.son second to Jacob

*JPS 1917:* And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a second son.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8145.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8145/): 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).