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# שְׁמִינִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8066

**eighth** — used 30 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

eighth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8066/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁמִינִי: adj.num. eighth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8066/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** —ִ31 adj.num. eighth;—בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁמִינִי Ex 22:29 + 16 times; הַחֹדֶשׁ הַשּׁ׳ 1 K 6:38 + 4 times; n.m. om. 1 Ch 24:10 + 4 times; הַשָּׁנָה הַשְּׁמִנִת Lv 25:22; elsewhere only phr., עַל־הַשְּׁמִינִית 1 Ch 15:21, and titles ψ 6:1; 12:1, usually acc. to the eighth key, or on the octave, but wholly dubious.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: eighth (28); sheminith (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 12:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.13/#tree)

יֽוֹחָנָן֙ הַשְּׁמִינִ֔י אֶלְזָבָ֖ד הַתְּשִׁיעִֽי׃

*Word for word:* Johanan \[was\].the eighth Elzabad \[was\].the ninth

*JPS 1917:* Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth;

[1 Chronicles 24:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.10/#tree)

לְהַקּוֹץ֙ הַשְּׁבִעִ֔י לַאֲבִיָּ֖ה הַשְּׁמִינִֽי׃

*Word for word:* to Hakkoz the seventh to Abijah the eighth

*JPS 1917:* the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8066.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8066/): 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).