2 Samuel 15:7:42 Sam.15.7.W4TAB
שָׁנָ֑ה
shana
“year”
- Transliteration
- sha-NA
- Extended
- shaa-NAA
- IPA
- /ʃaːˈnaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- year
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
sha-NA
- phraseyour reading level
ar-ba-IM sha-NA
- clause
va-ye-HI mik-KETS ar-ba-IM sha-NA
- sentence
va-ye-HI mik-KETS ar-ba-IM sha-NA va-yo-MER av-sha-LOM el-ha-ME-lekh e-le-KHA NA va-a-sha-LEM et-nid-RI a-sher-na-DAR-ti la-ye-ho-VAH be-khev-RON
Exegesis
The time phrase miqqetz arbaʿim shanah {מִקֵּץ אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה | miqqeṣ arbaʿim shanâ} ‘at the end of forty years’ uses a prepositional prefix on qetz ‘end’ plus a numeral and noun; although the MT reads “forty years,” a variant tradition reads “four years,” and the translations follow that reading.
In context — 2 Samuel 15:7
And it was at the end of four years that Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow which I vowed to the LORD in Hebron.”
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 15:7:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 2 Samuel 15:7, so the Hebrew word שָׁנָ֑ה (shana) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 2 Sam.15.7.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.15.7.W4.S1) and character.