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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.
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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 3 / 5 (1Ki 6:6–2Ch 13:21)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:6 - The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six H8337 cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:14 - Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six H8337 hundred threescore and six H8337 talents of gold,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:16 - And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six H8337 hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:19 - The throne had six H8337 steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:20 - And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six H8337 steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:29 - And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six H8337 hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:16 - (For six H8337 months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:8 - In the twenty and sixth H8337 year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:23 - In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six H8337 years reigned he in Tirzah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:5 - And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six H8337 thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 11:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:3 - And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six H8337 years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 13:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:10 - In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen H8337 years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 13:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:19 - And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six H8337 times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:21 - And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen H8337 years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:2 - Sixteen H8337 years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:8 - In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six H8337 months.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:33 - Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen H8337 years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:2 - Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen H8337 years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:10 - And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth H8337 year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 3:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:4 - These six H8337 were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six H8337 months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 3:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:22 - And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six. H8337

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:27 - And Shimei had sixteen H8337 sons and six H8337 daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:2 - And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six H8337 hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:4 - And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six H8337 and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:40 - All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six H8337 thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 8:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:38 - And Azel had six H8337 sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:6 - And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their brethren, six H8337 hundred and ninety.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:9 - And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. H8337 All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:44 - And Azel had six H8337 sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:24 - The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six H8337 thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:26 - Of the children of Levi four thousand and six H8337 hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:35 - And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six H8337 hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 20:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:6 - And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six H8337 on each hand, and six H8337 on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:25 - So David gave to Ornan for the place six H8337 hundred shekels of gold by weight.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:4 - Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six H8337 thousand were officers and judges:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 24:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:4 - And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen H8337 chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 24:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:14 - The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth H8337 to Immer,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 25:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:3 - Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, H8337 under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 25:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:23 - The sixteenth H8337 to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 26:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:17 - Eastward were six H8337 Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 1:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:17 - And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six H8337 hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:2 - And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six H8337 hundred to oversee them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:17 - And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six H8337 hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:18 - And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six H8337 hundred overseers to set the people a work.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:8 - And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six H8337 hundred talents.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:13 - Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six H8337 hundred and threescore and six H8337 talents of gold;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:15 - And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six H8337 hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:18 - And there were six H8337 steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:19 - And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six H8337 steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:21 - But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen H8337 daughters.

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