shena · year

What it means

shena (שְׁנָה) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “year”.

(Aramaic). The same word as the Hebrew "shana".

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 and age are counted.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• year ×5
• years ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Ezra×5
• Daniel×2

• Ezra 4:24

  Then the work of the house of Elah which is in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

• Ezra 5:11

  And thus they returned an answer to us, saying: ‘We are the servants of the Elah of the heavens and the earth, and we are building the house that was built many years before this; and a great king of Israel built it and finished it.

• Ezra 5:13

  However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king gave an order to build this house of Elah.

• Ezra 6:3

  In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king gave an order: Concerning the house of Elah in Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they sacrifice sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid; its height, sixty cubits; its width, sixty cubits;

• Ezra 6:15

  And this house was brought to completion by the third day of the month of Adar, which was the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

• Daniel 5:31

  And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

• Daniel 7:1

  In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head on his bed; then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.