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Strong's H8141 שָׁנֶה (shaneh)

shaneh - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.

Strong's Number H8141
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 646
Books 32

Strong's H8141 Quick Answer

Strong's H8141 שָׁנֶה שָׁנָה (shaneh) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shaneh (shaw-neh') ((in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}) n-f. 1. a year (as a revolution of time) [from H8138] It has 646 linked Bible usages across 32 books. Visible English usage signals include years, year, two, and are. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
shaneh (shaw-neh') ((in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}) n-f. 1. a year (as a revolution of time) [from H8138]
Usage
646 linked usages
Books
32 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
years, year, two, and are

Meaning and Definition

shaneh (shaw-neh') ((in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}) n-f. 1. a year (as a revolution of time) [from H8138] KJV: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly). Root(s): H8138

Original Word
שָׁנֶה שָׁנָה
Transliteration
shaneh
Derivation
Root: שׁנה First root strongs: 8138
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H8141. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

year

Usage: 1) year 1a) as division of time 1b) as measure of time 1c) as indication of age 1d) a lifetime (of years of life) Aramaic equivalent: she.nah (שְׁנָה "year" H8140)

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How Strong's H8141 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shaneh, 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.

years Genesis 1:14 102× year Genesis 7:11 16× two Genesis 11:10 are Genesis 25:17

How Strong's H8141 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 646 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H8141 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H8141 in the Old Testament

646 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 1:14 KJV

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

Genesis 5:3 KJV

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:

Genesis 5:4 KJV

And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8141.

Genesis 1:14 Old Testament, KJV
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Genesis 5:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:
Genesis 5:4 Old Testament, KJV
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:5 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Genesis 5:6 Old Testament, KJV
And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
Genesis 5:7 Old Testament, KJV
And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:8 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
Genesis 5:9 Old Testament, KJV
And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
Genesis 5:10 Old Testament, KJV
And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:11 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
Genesis 5:12 Old Testament, KJV
And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel:
Genesis 5:13 Old Testament, KJV
And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:14 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
Genesis 5:15 Old Testament, KJV
And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
Genesis 5:16 Old Testament, KJV
And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:17 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
Genesis 5:18 Old Testament, KJV
And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
Genesis 5:19 Old Testament, KJV
And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:20 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
Genesis 5:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
Genesis 5:22 Old Testament, KJV
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:23 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
Genesis 5:25 Old Testament, KJV
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.
Genesis 5:26 Old Testament, KJV
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:27 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
Genesis 5:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
Genesis 5:30 Old Testament, KJV
And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:31 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
Genesis 5:32 Old Testament, KJV
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:3 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 7:6 Old Testament, KJV
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
Genesis 7:11 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Genesis 8:13 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Genesis 9:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
Genesis 9:29 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
Genesis 11:10 Old Testament, KJV
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
Genesis 11:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:12 Old Testament, KJV
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
Genesis 11:13 Old Testament, KJV
And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:14 Old Testament, KJV
And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
Genesis 11:15 Old Testament, KJV
And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:16 Old Testament, KJV
And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
Genesis 11:17 Old Testament, KJV
And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:18 Old Testament, KJV
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
Genesis 11:19 Old Testament, KJV
And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:20 Old Testament, KJV
And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
Genesis 11:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:22 Old Testament, KJV
And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
Genesis 11:23 Old Testament, KJV
And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:24 Old Testament, KJV
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
Genesis 11:25 Old Testament, KJV
And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:26 Old Testament, KJV
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11:32 Old Testament, KJV
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
Genesis 12:4 Old Testament, KJV
So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
Genesis 14:4 Old Testament, KJV
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Genesis 14:5 Old Testament, KJV
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
Genesis 15:13 Old Testament, KJV
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Genesis 16:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
Genesis 16:16 Old Testament, KJV
And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
Genesis 17:1 Old Testament, KJV
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Genesis 17:17 Old Testament, KJV
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
Genesis 17:21 Old Testament, KJV
But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
Genesis 17:24 Old Testament, KJV
And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis 17:25 Old Testament, KJV
And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis 21:5 Old Testament, KJV
And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
Genesis 23:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
Genesis 25:7 Old Testament, KJV
And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
Genesis 25:17 Old Testament, KJV
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.
Genesis 25:20 Old Testament, KJV
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
Genesis 25:26 Old Testament, KJV
And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
Genesis 26:12 Old Testament, KJV
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
Genesis 26:34 Old Testament, KJV
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Genesis 29:18 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
Genesis 29:20 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Genesis 29:27 Old Testament, KJV
Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
Genesis 29:30 Old Testament, KJV
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Genesis 31:38 Old Testament, KJV
This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
Genesis 31:41 Old Testament, KJV
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Genesis 35:28 Old Testament, KJV
And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
Genesis 37:2 Old Testament, KJV
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
Genesis 41:1 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
Genesis 41:26 Old Testament, KJV
The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
Genesis 41:27 Old Testament, KJV
And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
Genesis 41:29 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
Genesis 41:30 Old Testament, KJV
And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
Genesis 41:34 Old Testament, KJV
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
Genesis 41:35 Old Testament, KJV
And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
Genesis 41:36 Old Testament, KJV
And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
Genesis 41:46 Old Testament, KJV
And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:47 Old Testament, KJV
And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
Genesis 41:48 Old Testament, KJV
And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
Genesis 41:50 Old Testament, KJV
And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
Genesis 41:53 Old Testament, KJV
And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
Genesis 41:54 Old Testament, KJV
And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Genesis 45:6 Old Testament, KJV
For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
Genesis 45:11 Old Testament, KJV
And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Genesis 47:8 Old Testament, KJV
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
Genesis 47:9 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Genesis 47:17 Old Testament, KJV
And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
Genesis 47:18 Old Testament, KJV
When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
Genesis 47:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
Genesis 50:22 Old Testament, KJV
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
Genesis 50:26 Old Testament, KJV
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Exodus 6:16 Old Testament, KJV
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
Exodus 6:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.
Exodus 6:20 Old Testament, KJV
And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.
Exodus 7:7 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
Exodus 12:2 Old Testament, KJV
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Exodus 12:5 Old Testament, KJV
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exodus 12:40 Old Testament, KJV
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
Exodus 12:41 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Exodus 16:35 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
Exodus 21:2 Old Testament, KJV
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Exodus 23:10 Old Testament, KJV
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
Exodus 23:14 Old Testament, KJV
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
Exodus 23:16 Old Testament, KJV
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
Exodus 23:17 Old Testament, KJV
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.
Exodus 23:29 Old Testament, KJV
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
Exodus 29:38 Old Testament, KJV
Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
Exodus 30:10 Old Testament, KJV
And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8141, grouped by book.

Genesis 103 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 23 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 41 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 82 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 21 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 5 usages, Old Testament
Judges 23 usages, Old Testament
Ruth 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 7 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 14 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 38 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 62 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 11 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 57 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 4 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 10 usages, Old Testament
Esther 5 usages, Old Testament
Job 8 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 13 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 5 usages, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 4 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 20 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 34 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 25 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 12 usages, Old Testament
Joel 2 usages, Old Testament
Amos 3 usages, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Old Testament
Haggai 3 usages, Old Testament
Zechariah 7 usages, Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H8141 FAQ

What does shaneh (שָׁנֶה) mean?

Strong's H8141 is a Hebrew entry for H8141 שָׁנֶה שָׁנָה (shaneh). shaneh (shaw-neh') ((in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}) n-f. 1. a year (as a revolution of time) [from H8138]

How many times is shaneh (שָׁנֶה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 646 linked usages for Strong's H8141 across 32 books.

Where can I study shaneh (שָׁנֶה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8141 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate shaneh (שָׁנֶה)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as years, year, two, and are. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.