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Strong's #8337: shesh (pronounced shaysh)

masculine shishshah {shish-shaw'}; a primitive number; six (as an overplus (see 7797) beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. sixth:--six((-teen, -teenth)), sixth.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּׁׁ / ׁׁ

shêsh / shishshâh

1) six

1a) six (cardinal number)

1b) sixth (ordinal number)

1c) in combination with other numbers

Part of Speech: noun masculine or feminine; adjective

Relation: a primitive number



Usage:

This word is used 215 times:

Numbers 2:32: "those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand"
Numbers 3:28: "old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge"
Numbers 3:34: "from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred."
Numbers 4:40: "of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty."
Numbers 7:3: "their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve"
Numbers 11:21: "among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou"
Numbers 26:22: "are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred."
Numbers 26:41: "of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred."
Numbers 26:51: "were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven"
Numbers 31:32: "of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand"
Numbers 31:37: "of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen."
Numbers 31:38: "And the beefs were thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD's tribute was threescore and twelve."
Numbers 31:40: "And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD's tribute was thirty"
Numbers 31:44: "And thirty and six thousand beefs,"
Numbers 31:46: " And sixteen thousand persons;)"
Numbers 31:52: "and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand"
Numbers 35:6: "ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint"
Numbers 35:13: "And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge."
Numbers 35:15: "These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger,"
Deuteronomy 5:13: " Six days thou shalt labor, and do all thy work:"
Deuteronomy 15:12: "a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go"
Deuteronomy 15:18: "from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years:"
Deuteronomy 16:8: " Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD"
Joshua 6:3: "once. Thus shalt thou do six days."
Joshua 6:14: "and returned into the camp: so they did six days."
Joshua 7:5: "smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate"
Joshua 15:41: "Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:"
Joshua 15:59: "And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages:"
Joshua 15:62: "and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages."
Joshua 19:22: "of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages."
Judges 3:31: "which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad:"
Judges 12:7: "judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite,"
Judges 18:11: "of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six"
Judges 18:16: " And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children"
Judges 18:17: "stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons"
Judges 20:15: "time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew"
Judges 20:47: " But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock"
Ruth 3:15: "thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into"
Ruth 3:17: "And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to"
1 Samuel 13:5: "thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand"
1 Samuel 13:15: "the people that were present with him, about six hundred men."
1 Samuel 14:2: "and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;"
1 Samuel 17:4: "of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits"
1 Samuel 17:7: "beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing"
1 Samuel 23:13: "Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah,"
1 Samuel 27:2: "arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with"
1 Samuel 30:9: "So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with"
2 Samuel 2:11: "of Judah was seven years and six months."
2 Samuel 5:5: "Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty"
2 Samuel 6:13: "the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings."









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