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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 1 / 5 (Gen 7:6–Num 3:28)

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Noah was six hundred years old when the flood (deluge) of water came on the earth [covering all of the land].

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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 same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.

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Now in the six hundred and first year [of Noah’s life], on the first day of the first month, the waters were drying up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and the surface of the ground was drying.

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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 - Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good [marriage] gift [for my husband]; now he will live with me [regarding me with honor as his wife], because I have given birth to six sons.” So she named him [fn]Zebulun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - “These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for [my share of] your flocks, and you have [fn]changed my wages ten times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These are the sons of Zilpah, [the maid] whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter [when she married Jacob]; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons [two sons and fourteen grandchildren].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:26 - All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt—who were his direct descendants, not counting the wives of [Jacob or] Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all,

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Now the Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides [the women and] the children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:7 - and he took six hundred chosen war-chariots, and all the other war-chariots of Egypt with [fn]fighting charioteers over all of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:26 - “Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none [in the field].”

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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 everything that is in them, and He rested (ceased) on the seventh day. That is why the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy [that is, set it apart for His purposes].

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“If you purchase a Hebrew servant [because of his debt or poverty], he shall serve six years, and in the seventh [year] he shall leave as a free man, paying nothing.

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“You shall sow your land six years and harvest its yield,

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“Six days [each week] you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall stop [working] so that your ox and your donkey may settle down and rest, and the son of your female servant, as well as your stranger, may be refreshed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:16 - The glory and brilliance of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day God called to Moses from the midst of the cloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:32 - “Six branches shall come out of its sides; three branches of the lampstand out of the one side and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side [the shaft being the seventh branch].

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:33 - “Three cups shall be made like almond blossoms, each with a calyx and a flower on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms on the other branch with a calyx and a flower—so for the six branches coming out of the lampstand;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:35 - “A calyx shall be under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a calyx under the second pair of branches coming out of it, and a calyx under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:9 - “You shall join five curtains by themselves and the other six curtains by themselves, and you shall double over the sixth curtain at the front of the tent [to make a closed door].

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:22 - “For the back or west side of the tabernacle you shall make six boards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:25 - “There shall be eight boards and sixteen silver sockets; two sockets under each board.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:15 - ‘For six days work may be done, but the seventh is the Sabbath of complete rest, sacred to the LORD; whoever does work on the Sabbath day must be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:17 - “It is 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 ceased and was refreshed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:21 -

“You shall work for six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; [even] in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest [on the Sabbath].

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:2 -

“For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD; whoever does any kind of work on that day shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:16 - Bezalel joined five curtains by themselves and [the other] six curtains by themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:27 - And for the rear of the tabernacle, to the west, he made six [frame] boards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:30 - There were eight boards with sixteen silver sockets, and under [the end of] each board two sockets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:18 - There were six branches coming out of the sides of the lampstand, three branches from one side of the center shaft and three branches from the other side of it;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:19 - three cups shaped like almond blossoms, a calyx and a flower in one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, a calyx and a flower in the opposite branch—so for the six branches coming out of the center shaft of the lampstand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:21 - and a calyx was under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a calyx under the second pair of branches, coming out of it, and a calyx under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - a beka for each man (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary) for everyone who was counted, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:5 - ‘But if she gives birth to a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as during her monthly period, and she shall remain [intimately separated] sixty-six days to be purified from the blood.

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‘For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation (calling together). You shall not do any work [on that day]; it is the Sabbath of the LORD [fn]wherever you may be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:6 - “You shall set the bread of the Presence (showbread) in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:3 - ‘For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - those of the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25 - those of the tribe of Gad numbered 45,650.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27 - those of the tribe of Judah numbered 74,600.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:46 - all who were numbered were 603,550.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:4 - and his army as numbered totaled 74,600.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:9 - “The total of the numbered men [in the three tribes on the east side] in the camp of Judah was 186,400, by their armies. They shall move out first [on the march].

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:11 - and his army as numbered totaled 46,500.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:15 - and his army as numbered totaled 45,650.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:31 - “The total of the numbered men [of the three tribes on the north side] in the camp of Dan was 157,600. They shall move out last, [fn]standard after standard.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:32 -

These are the men of the Israelites [twenty years old and upward] as numbered by their fathers’ households. The total of the numbered men of the camps by their armies, 603,550.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28 - The males who were numbered, every male from a month old and upward totaled [fn]8,600, attending to the duties of the sanctuary.

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