שֵׁנִי, (b. h.) second. Meg. IV, 1 בש׳ on the second day of the week. Ib. 22ᵃ; Taan. 27ᵇ הש׳ קורא וכ׳ the second (of those called to read from the Law) reads &c. Bets. 6ᵃ, a. fr. יום טוב ש׳ the second (Rabbinical) Holy Day (instituted on account of the uncertainty of the calendar). Sabb. 40ᵇ, a. fr. כלי ש׳ second vessel, i.e. a vessel into which a boiling mass has been poured, contrad. to כלי ראשון a vessel direct from the fire.—Maas. Sh. I, 1, a. fr. מעשר ש׳, v. מַעֲשֵׂר.—Esp. a) (לטומאה) ש׳ the second degree of levitical uncleanness, an object made unclean through contact with uncleanness, v. רִאשׁוֹן. Toh. II, 2 האוכל … אוכל ש׳ ש׳ he that eats food unclean in the second degree, becomes unclean in the second degree. Pes. 14ᵃ ש׳ וש׳ הוא וכ׳ it is a contact between two things both unclean in the second degree, and why do you say that he adds to the degree of uncleanness?; a. fr.—b) relationship in the second degree, second generation. Snh. 28ᵃ ש׳ בש׳ תנן we have learned that a relative in the second degree (first cousin) cannot testify for or against a relative in the second degree; ש׳ בראשון תנן we have learned that one of the second generation cannot testify for or against one of the first generation, i.e. his uncle. Ib. שלישי בש׳ a relative in the third degree against one in the second degree, i.e. his father’s first cousin; a. fr.—Pl. שְׁנִיִּים. Yad. II, 2 ואת הש׳ למקום אחר and water poured over his hands a second time on another place. Ib. ועל הש׳ טהור and a loaf which fell on the place which received the second water is clean. Gen. R. s. 31 ש׳ לו וכ׳ the second story of the ark was for him (Noah) and his sons and the clean animals; a. fr.—Fem. שְׁנִיָּה, שְׁנִיָּיה. Shek. III, 4; a. fr.—Pl. שְׁנִיּוֹת. Yad. III, 2 ש׳ (sub. לטומאה), v. supra. Ab. Zar. 3ᵇ ש׳ during the second three hours of the day; a. fr.—Esp. שניה (sub. לערוה) incest of second degree, intermarriage forbidden by rabbinical enactment. Yeb. 21ᵇ אמו ערוה אם אמו ש׳ connection with one’s mother is incest, with one’s mother’s mother incest in the second degree. Ib. משום ש׳ as incest of the second degree; a. fr.—Pl. as above. Ib.ᵃ מה הם ש׳ what relationships are sh’niyoth? Ib. (ref. to Lev. XVIII, 27) האל … מאי נינהו ש׳ haël means the severe, which implies that there are milder forms of incest; what are they? The sh’niyoth; a. fr.