shane · year

What it means

shane (שָׁנֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “year”.

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. Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
2. The years of a person's life.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Year.

• The year as a measure of time Genesis 1:141 Samuel 1:7
• Age or the length of a life Genesis 5:5Psalms 90:10
• The date of an event Genesis 7:11
• Years set apart by the law: the jubilee Leviticus 25:10

Historical and cultural background

Leviticus 25 orders time by years: every seventh year the land rests, and the fiftieth year is the jubilee, in which each one returns to his possession and to his clan (Leviticus 25:10).

How we translate it

A constant rendering: “years” 509 times and “year” 353. The Hebrew repetition “year to year” is said “year by year” (1 Samuel 1:7). The few times another word appears (a number) it is because English joins the word with the number.

How it is translated

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

• years ×509
• year ×353
• fifty ×2
• nineteen ×2
• thirty-nine ×2
• change ×1
• eleven ×1
• fifteen ×1
• of ×1
• seventeen ×1
• others ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×161
• Exodus×30
• Leviticus×59
• Numbers×92
• Deuteronomy×29
• Joshua×6
• Judges×24
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×10
• 2 Samuel×20
• 1 Kings×58
• 2 Kings×104
• 1 Chronicles×13
• 2 Chronicles×78
• Ezra×5
• Nehemiah×14
• Esther×7
• Job×8
• Psalms×15
• Proverbs×5
• Ecclesiastes×5
• Isaiah×27
• Jeremiah×44
• Ezekiel×28
• Daniel×14
• Joel×2
• Amos×3
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×2
• Haggai×3
• Zechariah×8
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 1:14

  And Elohim said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years;

• Genesis 5:3

  And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and fathered a son in his likeness, according to his image, and called his name Seth.

• Genesis 5:4

  And the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were eight hundred years; and he fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:5

  And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

• Genesis 5:6

  And Seth lived one hundred and five years and fathered Enosh.

• Genesis 5:7

  And Seth lived after he fathered Enosh eight hundred and seven years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:8

  And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years and he died.

• Genesis 5:9

  And Enosh lived ninety years and fathered Kenan.

• Genesis 5:10

  And Enosh lived after he fathered Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:11

  And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years and he died.

• Genesis 5:12

  And Kenan lived seventy years and fathered Mahalalel.

• Genesis 5:13

  And Kenan lived after he fathered Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:14

  And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years and he died.

• Genesis 5:15

  And Mahalalel lived sixty-five years and fathered Jared.

• Genesis 5:16

  And Mahalalel lived after he fathered Jared eight hundred and thirty years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:17

  And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years and he died.

• Genesis 5:18

  And Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years and fathered Enoch.

• Genesis 5:19

  And Jared lived after he fathered Enoch eight hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:20

  And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years and he died.

• Genesis 5:21

  And Enoch lived sixty-five years and fathered Methuselah.

• Genesis 5:22

  And Enoch walked with Elohim after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:23

  And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

• Genesis 5:25

  And Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years and fathered Lamech.

• Genesis 5:26

  And Methuselah lived after he fathered Lamech seven hundred and eighty-two years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:27

  And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years and he died.

• Genesis 5:28

  And Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years and fathered a son.

• Genesis 5:30

  And Lamech lived after he fathered Noah five hundred and ninety-five years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:31

  And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years and he died.

• Genesis 5:32

  And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

• Genesis 6:3

  And YHWH said, “My spirit will not remain in the human being forever, for he also is flesh; and his days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

• Genesis 7:6

  And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came, waters on the earth.

• Genesis 7:11

  In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

• Genesis 8:13

  And it happened in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and look, the face of the ground had dried.

• Genesis 9:28

  And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

• Genesis 9:29

  And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

• Genesis 11:10

  These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood.

• Genesis 11:11

  After he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived five hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:12

  Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and fathered Shelah.

• Genesis 11:13

  After he fathered Shelah, Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:14

  Shelah lived thirty years and fathered Eber.

And 837 more times.