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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 Box Gen 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:6 - And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth.

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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, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:20 - and Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry; this time will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - I have been these twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - -- These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob: sixteen souls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:26 - All the souls that came with Jacob to Egypt, that had come out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives: all the souls were sixty-six.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:37 - And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, besides children.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:26 - Six days shall ye gather it; but on the seventh day is sabbath: on it there shall be none.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:9 - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:11 - For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:2 - If thou buy a Hebrew bondman, six years shall he serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:10 - And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in its produce;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:12 - -- Six days thou shalt do thy work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger may be refreshed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:16 - And the glory of Jehovah abode on mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:32 - And six branches shall come out of the sides thereof -- three branches of the lamp-stand out of one side thereof, and three branches of the lamp-stand out of the other side thereof;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:33 - three cups shaped like almonds in the one branch, a knob and a flower: and three cups shaped like almonds in the other branch, a knob and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the lamp-stand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:35 - and a knob under two branches of it, and again a knob under two branches of it, and again a knob under two branches of it, for the six branches that proceed out of the lamp-stand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:9 - And thou shalt couple five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the front of the tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:22 - And for the rear of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:25 - And there shall be eight boards, and their bases, of silver, sixteen bases; two bases under one board, and two bases under another board.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:10 - six of their names on the one stone, and the six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:15 - Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, holy to Jehovah: whoever doeth work on the sabbath day shall certainly be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:17 - It shall be a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; for in six days Jehovah 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 shalt thou work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in ploughing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:2 - Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to Jehovah: whoever does work on it shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:16 - And he coupled five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:27 - And at the rear of the tabernacle, westward, he made six boards;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:30

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:18 - And six branches went out of the sides thereof -- three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:19 - there were three cups shaped like almonds in the one branch, a knob and a flower; and three cups shaped like almonds in the other branch, a knob and a flower: so in the six branches which went out of the candlestick.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:21 - and a knob under two branches thereof, and again a knob under two branches thereof, and again a knob under two branches thereof, for the six branches which went out of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - a bekah the head -- half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that passed the numbering from twenty years old and upward, of the six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:5 - And if she bear a female, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation; and she shall continue sixty-six days in the blood of her cleansing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:3 - Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; no manner of work shall ye do: it is the sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwellings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:6 - And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure table before Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:3 - Six years shalt thou sow thy field, and six years shalt thou prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:46 - all they that were numbered were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:4 - and his host, even those that were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:9 - All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their hosts. They shall set forth first.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:11 - and his host, even those that were numbered thereof, forty-six thousand five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:15 - and his host, even those that were numbered of them, forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:31 - All that were numbered of the camp of Dan were a hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set forth last according to their standards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:32 - These are those that were numbered of the children of Israel, according to their fathers' houses: all those that were numbered of the camps, according to their hosts, were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28 - According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, who kept the charge of the sanctuary.

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