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# תֵּשַׁע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8673

**a nine** — used 20 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

a nine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8673/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֵּ֫שַׁע: n.m. et. n.f. n.m. n.f. n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8673/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. et. f. a nine, nonad (NH = BH; Assyrian tišit (fem.), nine, tešû, ninth; Sab. תסעת nine, תסעי ninety HomChr 48; Liḥy. תסע DHMEpigr. Denkm. Ar. 52, Arabic تِسْعٌ, Ethiopic ትስዑ Aramaic תְּשַׁע, ܬܫܰܥ, Nab. Palm. תשע Lzb388, Mand. (א for ע; sometimes ע pref.) תשא, עשתא NöM 188, all nine);—m. c. n.f. abs. תֵּ֫שַׁע Dt 3:11 + 20 times, cstr. תְּשַׁע Ju 4:3 + 18 times; f. c. n.m. abs. תִּשְׁעָה 2 S 14:8 + 13 times, cstr. תִּשְׁעַת Jos 13:7 + 2 times (these include 9 + 10 = 19);—nine (Hex chiefly P); no other num.: before n.pl. תֵּ֫שַׁע אַמּוֹת Dt 3:11, ת׳ שָׁנִים 2 K 17:1 Gn 11:19, ת׳ הַיָּדוֹת Ne 11:1, תִּשְׁעָה חֳדָשִׁים 2 S 24:8, תִּשְׁעַת הַשְּׁבָטִים Jos 13:7 (JE?), cf.14:2 Nu 34:13 (both P); after n.pl. עָרִים תֵּ֫שַׁע Jos 15:44, 51; 21:16 (all P), פָּרִים תִּשְׁעָה Nu 29:26 (P); n. om. 1 Ch 3:8. = ordin. בְּתִשְׁעָה לַחֹדֶשׁ 2 K 25:3 + 3 times on the ninth (day) of the month; שְׁנַת־תֵּשַׁע לְ 18:10 the ninth year of. 9 + 10 = 19, c. n.f. תְּשַׁע־עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה Gn 11:25, עָרִים תְּשַׁע־עֶשְׂרֵה Jos 19:38 (both P), as ordinal שְׁנַת תְּשַׁע־עֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה לְ 2 K 25:8 ‖ Je 52:12; c. n.m. תִּשְׁעָה עָשָׂר אִישׂ 2 S 2:30, cf.(as ordin., גּוֹרָל om.) 1 Ch 24:16; 25:26. 900 = תְּשַׁע מֵאוֹת Ju 4:3 + 14 times c. tens (20, 30, etc.): ת׳ foll. 2 K 14:2 + 10 times, precedes Gn 11:24 + 6 times, cf.Köii. 1. 215 ff.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: ninety (15); of ninety (4); \[was\] ninety (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.20/#tree)

בְּנֵ֥י גִבָּ֖ר תִּשְׁעִ֥ים וַחֲמִשָּֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Gibbar ninety and five

*JPS 1917:* The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.

[Nehemiah 7:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.25/#tree)

בְּנֵ֥י גִבְע֖וֹןתִּשְׁעִ֥ים וַחֲמִשָּֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Gibeon ninety and five

*JPS 1917:* The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8673.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8673/): 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).