shana · repeat; change

What it means

shana (שָׁנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “repeat; change”.

Do a second time, repeat. Elsewhere, change; be different.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To do or say something again, a second time.
2. To make something different from what it was.
3. To change one's appearance so no one recognizes him.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• different ×3
• he changed ×3
• change ×2
• changing ×2
• Do it a second time ×1
• disguise yourself ×1
• he moved her ×1
• pervert ×1
• repeat the blow ×1
• repeating ×1
• others ×6

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×3
• Nehemiah×1
• Esther×3
• Job×2
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×4
• Jeremiah×2
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 41:32

  As for the repeating of the dream to Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is fixed by Elohim, and Elohim is hurrying to do it.

• 1 Samuel 21:13

  So he changed his behavior before their eyes and pretended to be mad in their hands, and made marks on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down onto his beard.

• 1 Samuel 26:8

  Abishai said to David, “Elohim has delivered your enemy into your hand today. Now please let me strike him with the spear to the ground with one stroke, and I will not strike him twice.”

• 2 Samuel 20:10

  But Amasa did not guard himself against the sword that was in the hand of Joab, and he struck him with it in the belly and poured out his entrails on the ground, and he did not repeat the blow on him, and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba son of Bichri.

• 1 Kings 14:2

  Jeroboam said to his wife, “Get up, please, and disguise yourself, so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Look, there is Ahijah the prophet; he spoke about me that I would be king over this people.

• 1 Kings 18:34

  And he said, “Fill four jars with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.” And he said, “Do it a second time”; and they did it a second time. And he said, “Do it a third time”; and they did it a third time.

• Nehemiah 13:21

  But I testified against them and said to them, “Why are you spending the night in front of the wall? If you do it again, I will lay a hand on you.” From that time they did not come on the Sabbath.

• Esther 1:7

  And drink was given in vessels of gold, and vessels different from other vessels, and royal wine in abundance, according to the hand of the king.

• Esther 2:9

  And the young woman seemed good in his eyes, and she won loyal love before him; and he hurried to give her her ointments and her portions, and the seven young women chosen to be given to her from the king’s house; and he moved her and her young women to the best part of the house of the women.

• Esther 3:8

  And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and separated among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from those of every people, and the king’s laws they do not keep; and for the king it is not worthwhile to leave them alone.

• Job 14:20

  You prevail over him forever, and he goes; changing his face, you send him away.

• Job 29:22

  After my word they did not reply, and upon them dropped my speech.

• Psalms 34:1

  Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, and he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless YHWH at all times; continually his praise will be in my mouth.

• Psalms 89:34

  I will not profane my covenant, and what has gone out of my lips I will not change.

• Proverbs 17:9

  Whoever covers a transgression seeks love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends.

• Proverbs 24:21

  Fear YHWH, my son, and the king; with those who are different do not get involved;

• Proverbs 26:11

  Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a senseless man who repeats his folly.

• Proverbs 31:5

  lest he drink and forget what is decreed and pervert the cause of all the sons of affliction.

• Jeremiah 2:36

  Why do you go about so lightly changing your way? Also by Egypt you will be put to shame, as you were put to shame by Assyria.

• Jeremiah 52:33

  He changed the clothes of his prison, and he ate bread before him always all the days of his life.

• Malachi 3:6

  For I, YHWH, do not change; and you, sons of Jacob, have not come to an end.

And 1 more times.