שָׁנָא
shana · change
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8132 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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shana (שָׁנָא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “change”.
Make different: of clothes (2 Kings 25:29), of appearance (Lamentations 4:1) or of place (Esther 2:9). A less frequent form of the verb "change."
How to say it
sha·na
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
- To make something different.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- changed ×2
- changes ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Kings 25:29
He changed the clothes of his prison, and he ate bread always before him all the days of his life.
- Ecclesiastes 8:1
Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a matter? The wisdom of a human being lights up his face, and the hardness of his face is changed.
- Lamentations 4:1
How the gold grows dark, the pure gold changes, the good gold! The sacred stones are poured out at the head of every street.