Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to change
Usage: 1) change, alter 1a) (Qal) to change 1b) (Piel) to change, alter 1c) (Pual) to be changed, mollified 1d) (Hithpael) to disguise oneself
Shanah means “fold” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8138 שָׁנָה (shanah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shanah (shaw-naw') v. 1. to fold 2. (literally or figuratively) to duplicate or double It has 20 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include do, was, and alter. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
shanah (shaw-naw') v. 1. to fold 2. (literally or figuratively) to duplicate or double 3. (by implication, transitive or intransitive) to transmute, transform, alter [a primitive root] KJV: do (speak, strike) again, alter, double, (be given to) change, disguise, (be) diverse, pervert, prefer, repeat, return, do the second time.
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to change
Usage: 1) change, alter 1a) (Qal) to change 1b) (Piel) to change, alter 1c) (Pual) to be changed, mollified 1d) (Hithpael) to disguise oneself
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shanah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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20 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8138.
And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.
And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.
And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.
For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8138, grouped by book.
Shanah (Strong's H8138) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "fold". shanah (shaw-naw') v. 1. to fold 2. (literally or figuratively) to duplicate or double
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's H8138 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8138 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as do, was, and alter. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.