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Lexicon :: Strong's H8337 - šēš

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שֵׁשׁ
Transliteration
šēš
Pronunciation
shaysh
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Part of Speech
adjective, masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive number
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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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
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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 - Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:16 - Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:20 - Then Leah said, “God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These were the children born to Jacob by Zilpah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:26 - All those who went to Egypt with Jacob—those who were his direct descendants, not counting his sons’ wives—numbered sixty-six persons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:37 - The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:7 - He took six hundred of the best chariots, along with all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:26 - Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:9 - Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:11 - For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:2 - “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:10 - “For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:12 - “Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:16 - and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:32 - Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:33 - Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:35 - One bud shall be under the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a second bud under the second pair, and a third bud under the third pair—six branches in all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:9 - Join five of the curtains together into one set and the other six into another set. Fold the sixth curtain double at the front of the tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:22 - Make six frames for the far end, that is, the west end of the tabernacle,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:25 - So there will be eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:15 - For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath 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 - It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:21 - “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:2 - For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a day of sabbath rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it is to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:16 - They joined five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another set.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:27 - They made six frames for the far end, that is, the west end of the tabernacle,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:30 - So there were eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:18 - Six branches extended from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:19 - Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms were on one branch, three on the next branch and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:21 - One bud was under the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a second bud under the second pair, and a third bud under the third pair—six branches in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - one beka per person, that is, half a shekel,[fn] according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone who had crossed over to those counted, twenty years old or more, a total of 603,550 men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:5 - If she gives birth to a daughter, for two weeks the woman will be unclean, as during her period. Then she must wait sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:3 - “ ‘There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:6 - Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:3 - For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - The number from the tribe of Reuben was 46,500.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25 - The number from the tribe of Gad was 45,650.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27 - The number from the tribe of Judah was 74,600.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:46 - The total number was 603,550.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:4 - His division numbers 74,600.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:9 - All the men assigned to the camp of Judah, according to their divisions, number 186,400. They will set out first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:11 - His division numbers 46,500.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:15 - His division numbers 45,650.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:31 - All the men assigned to the camp of Dan number 157,600. They will set out last, under their standards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:32 - These are the Israelites, counted according to their families. All the men in the camps, by their divisions, number 603,550.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28 - The number of all the males a month old or more was 8,600.[fn] The Kohathites were responsible for the care of the sanctuary.

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