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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:

1 Samuel 14:11: " And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold,"
1 Samuel 14:49: "and Ishui, and Melchi-shua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab,"
1 Samuel 18:21: "David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law in the one of the twain."
1 Samuel 20:11: "and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field."
1 Samuel 20:42: "in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying,"
1 Samuel 23:18: " And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood,"
1 Samuel 25:18: "and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep"
1 Samuel 25:43: "of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives."
1 Samuel 27:3: "every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail"
1 Samuel 28:8: "raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to"
1 Samuel 30:5: "And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife"
1 Samuel 30:12: "And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again"
1 Samuel 30:18: "had carried away: and David rescued his two wives."
2 Samuel 1:1: "of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;"
2 Samuel 2:2: "So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess,"
2 Samuel 2:10: "over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah"
2 Samuel 2:15: "Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ish-bosheth the son"
2 Samuel 2:15: "of Benjamin, which pertained to Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants"
2 Samuel 4:2: "And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the name"
2 Samuel 8:2: "them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death,"
2 Samuel 8:5: "David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men."
2 Samuel 9:13: "the king's table; and was lame on both his feet."
2 Samuel 10:6: "a thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men."
2 Samuel 12:1: "unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one"
2 Samuel 13:6: "my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand."
2 Samuel 14:6: "And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part"
2 Samuel 14:6: "And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part"
2 Samuel 15:27: "return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son,"
2 Samuel 15:36: "Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok's son, and Jonathan"
2 Samuel 17:1: "Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise"
2 Samuel 17:18: "them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's"
2 Samuel 18:24: "And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to"
2 Samuel 21:8: "But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah,"
2 Samuel 23:20: "who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab:"
1 Kings 2:5: "did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner"
1 Kings 2:32: "his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than"
1 Kings 2:39: "at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away"
1 Kings 3:16: "Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood"
1 Kings 3:18: "us in the house, save we two in the house."
1 Kings 3:25: "the living child in two, and give half to the one,"
1 Kings 4:7: "And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals"
1 Kings 4:26: "stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen."
1 Kings 5:12: "between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together."
1 Kings 5:14: "a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over"
1 Kings 6:23: "And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits"
1 Kings 6:25: "cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one"
1 Kings 6:32: " The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims"
1 Kings 6:34: " And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door"
1 Kings 6:34: "doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding,"
1 Kings 6:34: "of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding."









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