שְׁנָא
she.na
“to change”
Definition
{to alter}
(Aramaic) corresponding to H8132 (שָׁנָא)
- to change, be altered, be changed 1a) (P'al) to change, be changed 1b) (Pael) to change, transform, frustrate 1b1) different (participle) 1c) (Ithpael) to be changed 1d) (Aphel) to change, alter
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Occurrences
שְׁנָא appears 17 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one decree for you. You have conspired to speak before me false and fraudulent words, hoping the situation will change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can give me its interpretation.”
and when the satraps, prefects, governors, and royal advisers had gathered around, they saw that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men. Not a hair of their heads was singed, their robes were unaffected, and there was no smell of fire on them.
Then King Belshazzar became even more terrified, his face grew even more pale, and his nobles were bewildered.
After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns.
And the ten horns are ten kings who will rise from this kingdom. After them another king, different from the earlier ones, will rise and subdue three kings.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.