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# שֵׁת

Biblical Aramaic

**six** — used 2 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

six [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b5_5c1_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׁת: n.m. six n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b5_5c1_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. six;—abs. שִׁ֑ת after n.f. Dn 3:1; שְׁנָת־שֵׁת Ezr 6:15 year six = sixth year.

### Jastrow 1903

שֵׁת: Seth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b5_5c1_5ea/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (b. h.) pr. n. m. Seth, son of Adam. Num. R. s. 1412 he called him שת שממנו הושתת העולם Seth (foundation), because with him the world’s foundation was laid. Cant. R. to VIII, 9; a. e.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (17 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: six (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 6:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.15/#tree)

וְשֵׁיצִיא֙ בַּיְתָ֣ה דְנָ֔ה עַ֛ד י֥וֹם תְּלָתָ֖ה לִירַ֣ח אֲדָ֑ר דִּי־הִ֣יא שְׁנַת־שֵׁ֔ת לְמַלְכ֖וּת דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מַלְכָּֽא׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.was.finished the house this until day three of the.month of.Adar which it \[was\].year six of the.reign of.Darius the king

*JPS 1917:* And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

[Daniel 3:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.1/#tree)

נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֗א עֲבַד֙ צְלֵ֣ם דִּֽי־דְהַ֔ב רוּמֵהּ֙ אַמִּ֣ין שִׁתִּ֔ין פְּתָיֵ֖הּ אַמִּ֣ין שִׁ֑ת אֲקִימֵהּ֙ בְּבִקְעַ֣ת דּוּרָ֔א בִּמְדִינַ֖ת בָּבֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* Nebuchadnezzar the king he.made an.image (diy).of gold height its \[was\].cubits sixty width its \[was\].cubits six he set.it.up on the.plain of.Dura in the.province of.Babylon

*JPS 1917:* Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b5_5c1_5ea.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b5_5c1_5ea/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).