שְׁנַיִם shᵉnayim

Meaning

two; also (as ordinal) twofold

In the King James Version: both, couple, double, second, twain, [phrase] twelfth, [phrase] twelve, [phrase] twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.

Derivation: dual of H8145 (שֵׁנִי); feminine שְׁתַּיִם;

Where it is used

• 2 Kings 6:10 So the king of Israel sent word to the place the man of God had pointed out. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.
• 2 Kings 7:14 Then the scouts took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, “Go and see.”
• 2 Kings 8:17 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years.
• 2 Kings 8:25 In the twelfth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
• 2 Kings 8:26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.
• 2 Kings 9:32 He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three eunuchs looked down at him.
• 2 Kings 10:4 But they were terrified and reasoned, “If two kings could not stand against him, how can we?”
• 2 Kings 10:8 When the messenger arrived, he told Jehu, “They have brought the heads of the sons of the king.” And Jehu ordered, “Pile them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”
• 2 Kings 10:14 Then Jehu ordered, “Take them alive.” So his men took them alive, then slaughtered them at the well of Beth-eked—forty-two men. He spared none of them.
• 2 Kings 11:7 the two divisions that would go off duty on the Sabbath are to guard the house of the LORD for the king.
• 2 Kings 14:1 In the second year of the reign of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz over Israel, Amaziah son of Joash became king of Judah.
• 2 Kings 15:2 He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.
• 2 Kings 15:27 In the fifty-second year of Azariah’s reign over Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twenty years.
• 2 Kings 15:32 In the second year of the reign of Pekah son of Remaliah over Israel, Jotham son of Uzziah became king of Judah.
• 2 Kings 17:1 In the twelfth year of the reign of Ahaz over Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria nine years.
• 2 Kings 17:16 They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.
• 2 Kings 21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
• 2 Kings 21:5 In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
• 2 Kings 21:12 this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.
• 2 Kings 21:19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.
• 2 Kings 23:12 He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
• 2 Kings 25:16 As for the two pillars, the Sea, and the movable stands that Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
• 2 Kings 25:27 On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.
• 1 Chronicles 1:19 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.
• 1 Chronicles 4:5 Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
• 1 Chronicles 6:63 The Merarites, according to their clans, were allotted twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.
• 1 Chronicles 7:2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of their families. In the days of David, 22,600 descendants of Tola were numbered in their genealogies as mighty men of valor.
• 1 Chronicles 7:7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, heads of their families—five in all. There were 22,034 mighty men of valor listed in their genealogies.
• 1 Chronicles 9:22 The number of those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds was 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their positions of trust.
• 1 Chronicles 11:21 He was doubly honored above the Three, and he became their commander, even though he was not included among the Three.
• 1 Chronicles 11:22 And Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a man of valor from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits. He struck down two champions of Moab, and on a snowy day he went down into a pit and killed a lion.
• 1 Chronicles 12:28 and Zadok, a mighty young man of valor, with 22 commanders from his own family.
• 1 Chronicles 15:10 and from the Uzzielites, Amminadab the chief and 112 of his relatives.
• 1 Chronicles 18:5 When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand of their men.
• 1 Chronicles 19:7 So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, as well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and camped near Medeba while the Ammonites were mustered from their cities and marched out for battle.
• 1 Chronicles 24:12 the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
• 1 Chronicles 24:17 the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul,
• 1 Chronicles 25:9 The first lot, which was for Asaph, fell to Joseph, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all; the second to Gedaliah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:10 the third to Zaccur, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:11 the fourth to Izri, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:12 the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:13 the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:14 the seventh to Jesarelah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:15 the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:16 the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:17 the tenth to Shimei, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:18 the eleventh to Azarel, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:19 the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:20 the thirteenth to Shubael, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:21 the fourteenth to Mattithiah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:22 the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:23 the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:24 the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:25 the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:26 the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:27 the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:28 the twenty-first to Hothir, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:29 the twenty-second to Giddalti, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:30 the twenty-third to Mahazioth, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
• 1 Chronicles 25:31 and the twenty-fourth to Romamti-ezer, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all.