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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:

2 Samuel 15:18: "and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which"
2 Samuel 21:20: "a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes,"
2 Samuel 21:20: "six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number;"
1 Kings 6:6: "cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven"
1 Kings 10:14: "in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents"
1 Kings 10:14: "six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,"
1 Kings 10:16: "targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to"
1 Kings 10:19: "The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind:"
1 Kings 10:20: "there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps:"
1 Kings 10:29: "came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse"
1 Kings 11:16: "(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel,"
1 Kings 16:8: "In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son"
1 Kings 16:23: "Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah."
2 Kings 5:5: "him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes"
2 Kings 11:3: "hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over"
2 Kings 13:10: "over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years."
2 Kings 13:19: "Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten"
2 Kings 14:21: "Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king"
2 Kings 15:8: "over Israel in Samaria six months."
2 Kings 15:33: "was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's"
2 Kings 16:2: "was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did"
2 Kings 18:10: "And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that"
1 Chronicles 3:4: " These six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six"
1 Chronicles 3:4: "he reigned seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty"
1 Chronicles 3:22: "and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six."
1 Chronicles 4:27: "And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not"
1 Chronicles 4:27: "And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not"
1 Chronicles 7:2: "two and twenty thousand and six hundred."
1 Chronicles 7:4: "were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many"
1 Chronicles 7:40: "And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men."
1 Chronicles 8:38: "And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael,"
1 Chronicles 9:6: "of Zerah; Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety."
1 Chronicles 9:9: "nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were chief"
1 Chronicles 9:44: "And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael,"
1 Chronicles 12:24: "that bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed"
1 Chronicles 12:26: "of Levi four thousand and six hundred."
1 Chronicles 12:35: "twenty and eight thousand and six hundred."
1 Chronicles 20:6: "whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son"
1 Chronicles 20:6: "were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant."
1 Chronicles 21:25: "gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight."
1 Chronicles 23:4: "were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers"
1 Chronicles 24:4: "and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers,"
1 Chronicles 24:14: "The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,"
1 Chronicles 25:3: "and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun,"
1 Chronicles 25:23: " The sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:"
1 Chronicles 26:17: "Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four"
2 Chronicles 1:17: "and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse"
2 Chronicles 2:2: "to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee"
2 Chronicles 2:17: "and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred."
2 Chronicles 2:18: "in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set"









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