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title: שֵׁנִי — second · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֵׁנִי (8145), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 157 times: second. BDB 1906: adj.num.ord. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֵׁנִי

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«שֵׁנִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **second** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 157 times · **Key:** 8145 · **BDB:** שֵׁנִי

### Glosses

second (117); a.second.\[time\] (19); the.second (9)

### Meaning (OSHB)

second [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8145/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.num.ord. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8145/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** m. שֵׁנִית f.157 adj.num.ord. second;—בַּיּוֹם הַשֵּׁנִי Ex 2:13 +, etc. (שֵׁנִי 82 times + Ne 3:30, read שֵׁנִית; read וְהַשֵּׁנִי also 1 Ch 6:13 for ושני); בַּשָּׁנָה הַשֵּׁנִית Gn 47:18 +, etc. (שֵׁנִית 72 times + Ne 3:30 v. supr.), שִׁבְעַת יָמִים שׁ׳ Lv 13:5, 33, 54 a second heptad of days; שֵׁנִית = a second time Gn 22:15 + 16 times + (= again, of similar—not identical—act, or another point in a series) Ez 4:6; Mal 2:13, וְהַשֵּׁנִית 2 S 16:19; †mpl. שְׁנִיִּם Nu 2:16 they shall set out as second, but Gn 6:16 second stories (in ark).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֵׁנִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8145/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 6:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.13/)

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וּבְנֵ֧י שְׁמוּאֵ֛ל הַבְּכֹ֥ר וַשְׁנִ֖י וַאֲבִיָּֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Samuel \[was\].the firstborn Vashni and Abijah

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Samuel: the first-born Vashni; then Abiah.

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[Genesis 30:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.12/)

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וַתֵּ֗לֶד זִלְפָּה֙ שִׁפְחַ֣ת לֵאָ֔ה בֵּ֥ן שֵׁנִ֖י לְיַעֲקֹֽב׃

*Word for word:* and she.bore Zilpah the.maidservant of.Leah a.son second to Jacob

*JPS 1917:* And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a second son.

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