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Lexicon :: Strong's H8337 - šēš

Aa
שֵׁשׁ
Transliteration
šēš
Pronunciation
shaysh
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Part of Speech
adjective, masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive number
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2336a

Strong’s Definitions

שֵׁשׁ shêsh, shaysh; masculine שִׁשָּׁה shishshâh; a primitive number; see H7797 six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ordinal sixth:—six(-teen, -teenth), sixth.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 215x

The KJV translates Strong's H8337 in the following manner: six (187x), sixteen (with H6240) (21x), sixteenth (with H6240) (3x), sixth (2x), sixteen (with H7657) (1x), threescore (with H7239) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 215x
The KJV translates Strong's H8337 in the following manner: six (187x), sixteen (with H6240) (21x), sixteenth (with H6240) (3x), sixth (2x), sixteen (with H7657) (1x), threescore (with H7239) (1x).

  1. six

    1. six (cardinal number)

    2. sixth (ordinal number)

    3. in combination with other numbers

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֵׁשׁ shêsh, shaysh; masculine שִׁשָּׁה shishshâh; a primitive number; see H7797 six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ordinal sixth:—six(-teen, -teenth), sixth.
STRONGS H8337: Abbreviations
שֵׁשׁ, שִׁשָּׁה 216 noun masculine and feminine six; — masculine שֵׁשׁ (with noun feminine) Genesis 31:41 + 120 times; feminine שִׁשָּׁה (with noun masculine) Genesis 30:20 + 39 times; construct שֵׁ֫שֶׁת Exodus 23:12 + 30 times (6+10=16 are additional); — six (Hexateuch chiefly P):
1. no other number:
a. before plural noun + 75 times: e.g. שֵׁשׁ שָׁנִים Exodus 21:2 (E) + 11 times, שֵׁשׁ אַמּוֺת 1 Samuel 17:4 + 8 times; שֵׁשׁ בָּאַמָּה † 1 Kings 6:6; שִׁשָּׁה בָּנִים Genesis 30:20 (E) + 2 times; שֵׁשֶׁת יָמִים Exodus 23:12 (E) + 14 times; after noun (late) † Exodus 28:2; Joshua 15:59, 62 (all P), 1 Chronicles 4:27; 1 Chronicles 26:17; Nehemiah 5:18; rarely noun omitted Leviticus 24:6 (P) + (distributive 2 Samuel 21:20 = 1 Chronicles 20:6).
b. = ordinal שְׁנַת שֵׁשׁ לְחִזְק׳ 2 Kings 18:10 (Ges§ 134 o).
2. 16, with noun feminine: שֵׁשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה, before נָ֑פֶשׁ Genesis 46:18 (P), שָׁנָה 2 Kings 13:10 + 9 times, בָּנוֺת 2 Chronicles 13:21; after עָרִים Joshua 15:41; Joshua 19:22 (P); with noun masculine שִׁשָּׁה עָשָׂר, before אֲדָנִים Exodus 26:25; Exodus 36:30 (P), also אֶלֶף, 1000, Numbers 31:40 + (P); after בָּנִים 1 Chronicles 4:27, etc.; = ordinal 16th 1 Chronicles 24:14; 1 Chronicles 25:23 +, ע׳ יוֺם שׁ׳ 2 Chronicles 29:27.
3. 600 = שֵׁשׁ מֵאוֺת, Genesis 7:6 (P) + 63 times; 6000 = שֵׁשֶׁת אֲלָפִים Numbers 3:34 (P) + 8 times; אֶלֶף שׁ׳ Judges 20:15 + 2 times
4. with tens, שׁ׳ following Genesis 46:26 + 13 times, precedes Numbers 31:44 (P).
5. שׁ׳ as round number, חָמֵשׁ אוֺשֿׁ׳ 2 Kings 13:19, compare Job 5:19; Proverbs 6:16.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

7:6; 30:20; 30:20; 31:41; 46:18; 46:26

Exodus

21:2; 23:12; 23:12; 26:25; 28:2; 36:30

Leviticus

24:6

Numbers

3:34; 31:40; 31:44

Joshua

15:41; 15:59; 15:62; 19:22

Judges

20:15

1 Samuel

17:4

2 Samuel

21:20

1 Kings

6:6

2 Kings

13:10; 13:19; 18:10

1 Chronicles

4:27; 4:27; 20:6; 24:14; 25:23; 26:17

2 Chronicles

13:21; 29:27

Nehemiah

5:18

Job

5:19

Proverbs

6:16

H8337

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8337 matches the Hebrew שֵׁשׁ (šēš),
which occurs 215 times in 202 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 7:6–Num 3:28)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:6 - And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:16 - Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:20 - And she said, God has given me a good bride-price; now at last will I have my husband living with me, for I have given him six sons: and she gave him the name Zebulun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and Jacob had these sixteen children by her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:26 - All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of Jacob's sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:37 - And the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses to Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:7 - And he took six hundred carriages, all the carriages of Egypt, and captains over all of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:26 - For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:9 - On six days do all your work:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:11 - For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:2 - If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:10 - For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:12 - For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:16 - And the glory of the Lord was resting on Mount Sinai, and the cloud was over it for six days; and on the seventh day he said Moses' name out of the cloud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:32 - It is to have six branches coming out from its sides; three branches from one side and three from the other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:33 - Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower, on all the branches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:35 - And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all the six branches of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:9 - Five of these curtains are to be joined together, and the other six are to be joined together, the sixth being folded over to make a hanging in front of the tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:22 - And six boards for the back of the House on the west,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:25 - So there are to be eight boards, with their sixteen silver bases, two bases under every board.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:10 - Six names on the one stone and six on the other, in the order of their birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:15 - Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:17 - It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he took his rest and had pleasure in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:21 - Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:2 - Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:16 - Five curtains were joined together to make one group, and six curtains were joined together to make the other group.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:27 - And for the west side of the House, at the back, they made six boards,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:30 - So there were eight boards with sixteen bases of silver, two bases under every board.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:18 - It had six branches coming out from its sides, three from one side and three from the other;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:19 - Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower on all the branches;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:21 - And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all six branches of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - A beka, that is, half a shekel by the holy scale, for everyone who was numbered; there were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men of twenty years old and over.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:5 - But if she gives birth to a female child, then she will be unclean for two weeks, as when she is unwell; and she will not be completely clean for sixty-six days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:3 - On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:6 - And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:3 - For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - Forty-six thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Reuben were numbered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25 - Forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty of the tribe of Gad were numbered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27 - Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:46 - Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:4 - The number of his army was seventy-four thousand, six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:9 - The number of all the armies of Judah was a hundred and eighty-six thousand, four hundred. They go forward first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:11 - The number of his army was forty-six thousand, five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:15 - The number of his army was forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:31 - The number of all the armies in the tents of Dan was a hundred and fifty-seven thousand, six hundred. They will go forward last, by their flags.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:32 - These are all who were numbered of the children of Israel, in the order of their fathers' families: all the armies in their tents together came to six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28 - Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were responsible for the care of the holy place.

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