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# שִׁשִּׁי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8345

**sixth** — used 28 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

sixth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8345/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁשִּׁי: adj.num. ordin. sixth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8345/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** m.22 שִׁשִׁית f.6 adj.num. ordin. sixth;—(הַ)יוֹם הַשִּׁשִּׁי Gn 1:31 + 5 times, etc.; בַּשָּׁנָה הַשִּׁשִּׁית Lv 25:21 Ez 8:1, etc.; cstr. שִׁשִּׁית הַהִין Ez 4:11 6th part of the hin, cf. 45:13; 46:14; read שׁ׳ also 45:13b (v. \[שִׁשָּׁה\] infra).

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 (15 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sixth (23); (the) sixth (2); \[month\] (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.15/#tree)

אֹ֚צֶם הַשִּׁשִּׁ֔י דָּוִ֖יד הַשְּׁבִעִֽי׃

*Word for word:* Ozem \[was\].the sixth David \[was\].the seventh

*JPS 1917:* Ozem the sixth, David the seventh.

[1 Chronicles 12:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.12/#tree)

עַתַּי֙ הַשִּׁשִּׁ֔י אֱלִיאֵ֖ל הַשְּׁבִעִֽי׃

*Word for word:* Attai \[was\].the sixth Eliel \[was\].the seventh

*JPS 1917:* Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8345.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8345/): 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).