Genesis 15:13:16Gen.15.13.W16TAB
שָׁנָֽה׃
shana
“years”
- Transliteration
- sha-NA
- Extended
- shah-NAA
- IPA
- /ʃaːˈnaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- years
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
- clause
a-re-BA me-OT sha-NA
- sentence
va-YO-mer le-av-RAM ya-DO-a te-DA ki-GER yi-he-YE za-re-a-KHA be-E-rets LO la-HEM va-a-va-DUM ve-i-NU o-TAM a-re-BA me-OT sha-NA
Exegesis
The construct chain arba meot shanah {אַרְבַּ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת שָׁנָֽה | ʾar-baʿ mē-ʾōt šā-nāh} conveys ‘four hundred years’ adverbially. Emphatic Hebrew structures are rendered with intensifiers (‘know for certain’ / ‘you can be sure’) and future auxiliaries to reflect prophetic certainty.
Root and etymology
Rootš–n–h
“to repeat, do again; cycle”
In context — Genesis 15:13
And He said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and they will serve them, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.”
About this coordinate
Genesis 15:13:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Genesis 15:13, so the Hebrew word שָׁנָֽה׃ (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 Gen.15.13.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.15.13.W16.S1) and character.