שִׁנְאָן, v. שָׁנָה I) repetition, double. Pesik. Baḥod., p. 107ᵇ (ref. to Ps. LXVIII, 18 רבותים אלפי ש׳) ירד … בעשרים ושנים אלף וכ׳ the Lord came down on Sinai with twenty and two thousand classes of ministering angels; ib. 108ᵃ (= שנון) וכולן ירדו שנונין לכלות וכ׳ and all of them came down (with) sharpened (swords), ready to consume Israel’s enemies (euphem. for Israel) &c.; ib. (as if from נאה) הנאין … שבהם the most beautiful and worthy of them; ib. (= שאנן) אעפ"כ היה להם ריוח in spite of their large numbers they had room; Pesik. R. s. 21; Yalk. Ex. 286; Yalk. Ps. 796.