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# שֵׁשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8346

**six** — used 59 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

six [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8346/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׁשׁ: n.m. f.six n.f. n.f. n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8346/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. et f.six;—m. שֵׁשׁ (c. n.f.) Gn 31:41 + 120 times; f. שִׁשָּׁה (c. n.m.) 30:20 + 39 times; cstr. שֵׁ֫שֶׁת Ex 23:12 + 30 times (6 + 10 = 16 are additional);—six (Hex chiefly P): no other num.: bef. n.pl. 75 times: e.g. שֵׁשׁ שָׁנִים Ex 21:2 (E) + 11 times, שֵׁשׁ אַמּוֹת 1 S 17:4 + 8 times; שֵׁשׁ בָּאַמָּה †1 K 6:6; שִׁשָּׁה בָּנִים Gn 30:20 (E) + 2 times; שֵׁשֶׁת יָמִים Ex 23:12 (E) + 14 times; after n. (late) †Ex 28:2 Jos 15:59, 62 (all P), 1 Ch 4:27; 26:17; Ne 5:18; rarely n. om. Lv 24:6 (P) + (distrib. 2 S 21:20 = 1 Ch 20:6). = ordin. שְׁנַת שֵׁשׁ לְחִזְק׳ 2 K 18:10 (Ges§ 134 o). 16, c. n.f.: שֵׁשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה, bef. נָ֑פֶשׁ Gn 46:18 (P), שָׁנָה 2 K 13:10 + 9 times, בָּנוֹת 2 Ch 13:21; after עָרִים Jos 15:41; 19:22 (P); c. n.m. שִׁשָׁה עָשָׂר, bef. אֲדָנִים Ex 26:25; 36:30 (P), also אֶלֶף, 1000, Nu 31:40 + (P); after בָּנִים 1 Ch 4:27, etc.; = ordin. 16th 1 Ch 24:14; 25:23 +, יוֹם שׁ׳ ע׳ 2 Ch 29:17. 600 = שֵׁשׁ מֵאוֹת, Gn 7:6 (P) + 63 times; 6000 = שֵׁשֶׁת אֲלָפִים Nu 3:34 (P) + 8 times; שׁ׳ אֶלֶף Ju 20:15 + 2 times c. tens, שׁ׳ foll. Gn 46:26 + 13 times, precedes Nu 31:44 (P). שׁ׳ as round no., חָמֵשׁ אוֹ־שׁ׳ 2 K 13:19, cf. Jb 5:19 Pr 6:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sixty (51); of sixty (4); \[was\] sixty (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 31:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.34/#tree)

וַחֲמֹרִ֕ים אֶחָ֥ד וְשִׁשִּׁ֖ים אָֽלֶף׃

*Word for word:* and donkeys one and sixty thousand

*JPS 1917:* and threescore and one thousand asses,

[Ezra 2:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.9/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י זַכָּ֔י שְׁבַ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת וְשִׁשִּֽׁים׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Zaccai seven hundred(s) and sixty

*JPS 1917:* The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8346.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8346/): 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).