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Strong's #8147: shnayim (pronounced shen-ah'-yim)

dual of 8145; feminine shttayim {shet-tah'-yim}; two; also (as ordinal) twofold:--both, couple, double, second, twain, + twelfth, + twelve, + twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּׁ / ׁ

shenayim / shettayim

1) two

1a) two (the cardinal number)

1a1) two, both, double, twice

1b) second (the ordinal number)

1c) in combination with other numbers

1d) both (a dual number)

Part of Speech: noun masculine or feminine dual; adjective

Relation: dual of H8145



Usage:

This word is used 767 times:

Numbers 33:9: "from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water,"
Numbers 34:15: " The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side"
Numbers 35:6: "and to them ye shall add forty and two cities."
Deuteronomy 1:23: "And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of"
Deuteronomy 3:8: "at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites"
Deuteronomy 3:21: "your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do"
Deuteronomy 4:13: "commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone."
Deuteronomy 4:47: "of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side"
Deuteronomy 5:22: "voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone,"
Deuteronomy 9:10: "delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger"
Deuteronomy 9:11: "nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone,"
Deuteronomy 9:15: "and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two"
Deuteronomy 9:15: "tables of the covenant were in my two hands."
Deuteronomy 9:17: "And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands,"
Deuteronomy 9:17: "tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes."
Deuteronomy 10:1: "said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up"
Deuteronomy 10:3: "of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up"
Deuteronomy 10:3: "like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand."
Deuteronomy 14:6: "the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts,"
Deuteronomy 17:6: "At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death"
Deuteronomy 19:15: "he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth"
Deuteronomy 19:17: " Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before"
Deuteronomy 21:15: "If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another"
Deuteronomy 21:17: "for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath:"
Deuteronomy 22:22: "a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay"
Deuteronomy 22:24: " Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone"
Deuteronomy 23:18: "vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God."
Deuteronomy 32:30: "should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except"
Joshua 2:1: "sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying,"
Joshua 2:4: "And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus,"
Joshua 2:10: "you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites,"
Joshua 2:23: " So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came"
Joshua 3:12: "Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel,"
Joshua 4:2: "Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,"
Joshua 4:3: "of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve"
Joshua 4:4: "Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared"
Joshua 4:8: "Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst"
Joshua 4:9: "And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place"
Joshua 4:20: "And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan,"
Joshua 6:22: "But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into"
Joshua 8:25: "day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all"
Joshua 9:10: "And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond"
Joshua 14:3: "Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and a half tribe on the other side"
Joshua 14:4: "the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave"
Joshua 15:60: "which is Kirjath-jearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:"
Joshua 18:24: "And Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:"
Joshua 19:15: "and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages."
Joshua 19:30: "also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages."
Joshua 21:7: "and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve"
Joshua 21:16: "cities out of those two tribes."









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