Lexicon
שֵׁנִי
she.ni
H8145
H:N Hebrew

second

157
Occurrences
26
Books
Hebrew
Language

she.ni marks the item, time, or occurrence that follows the first in an ordered sequence.

The supplied verses consistently use the term to identify what follows the first: a named person or lot in an enumeration, the corresponding member of a pair, a position in a month or year, or a renewed occurrence of an action. The distinction is ordinal rather than a separate lexical range: it locates the referent at the next point in an expressed sequence.

Senses in use

  1. Following first in an ordered sequence · dominant

    The ordinal adjective marks the next named member after a first item: in 1 Chronicles 24:7 the APB renders the first lot as Jehoiarib's and the next as Jedaiah's, while 1 Chronicles 3:15 places Jehoiakim after Johanan and before Zedekiah. It likewise identifies a corresponding item in a pair in 1 Kings 6:27, a temporal position in 2 Chronicles 30:15, and a renewed occurrence in 1 Kings 19:7, where the APB renders the angel's return "a second time."

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the ordinal with "second," including "second month," "second year," and "a second time." In paired descriptions it also uses wording such as "the other"; These are presentations of the clauses rather than fixed renderings of each token.

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Across Scripture