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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 is a son of six hundred years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - And it cometh to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, in the first of the month, the waters have been dried from off the earth; and Noah turneth aside the covering of the ark, and looketh, and lo, the face of the ground hath been dried.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:16 - and Abram is a son of eighty and six years in Hagar's bearing Ishmael to Abram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:20 - and Leah saith, 'God hath endowed me -- a good dowry; this time doth my husband dwell with me, for I have borne to him six sons;' and she calleth his name Zebulun;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - 'This is to me twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou changest my hire ten times;

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:26 - All the persons who are coming to Jacob to Egypt, coming out of his thigh, apart from the wives of Jacob's sons, all the persons are sixty and six.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:37

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:37 - And the sons of Israel journey from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, apart from infants;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:7 - and he taketh six hundred chosen chariots, even all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over them all;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:26 - six days ye do gather it, and in the seventh day -- the sabbath -- in it there is none.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:9 - six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:11 - for six days hath Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and resteth in the seventh day; therefore hath Jehovah blessed the Sabbath-day, and doth sanctify it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:2 - 'When thou buyest a Hebrew servant -- six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:10 - 'And six years thou dost sow thy land, and hast gathered its increase;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:12 - 'Six days thou dost do thy work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest, so that thine ox and thine ass doth rest, and the son of thine handmaid and the sojourner is refreshed;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:16 - and the honour of Jehovah doth tabernacle on mount Sinai, and the cloud covereth it six days, and He calleth unto Moses on the seventh day from the midst of the cloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:32 - and six branches are coming out of its sides, three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the second side;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:33 - three calyxes made like almonds in the one branch, a knop and a flower, and three calyxes made like almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; so for the six branches which are coming out from the candlestick.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:35 - and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, are to the six branches which are coming out of the candlestick;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:9 - and thou hast joined the five curtains apart, and the six curtains apart, and hast doubled the six curtains over-against the front of the tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:22 - And for the sides of the tabernacle westward, thou dost make six boards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:25 - And they have been eight boards, and their sockets of silver are sixteen sockets, two sockets under the one board, and two sockets 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 names of the remaining six on the second stone, according to their births;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:15 - 'Six days is work done, and in the seventh day is a sabbath of holy rest to Jehovah; any who doeth work in the sabbath-day is certainly put to death,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:17 - between Me and the sons of Israel it is a sign -- to the age; for six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, and in the seventh day He hath ceased, and is refreshed.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:21 - 'Six days thou dost work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest; in ploughing-time and in harvest thou dost rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:2 - Six days is work done, and on the seventh day there is to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to Jehovah; any who doeth work in it is put to death;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:16 - and he joineth the five curtains apart, and the six curtains apart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:27 - and for the sides of the tabernacle, westward, hath he made six boards;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:30 - and there have been eight boards; and their sockets of silver are sixteen sockets, two sockets under the one board.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:18 - and six branches are coming out of its sides, three branches of the candlestick out of its one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of its second side;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:19 - three calyxes, made like almonds, in the one branch, a knop and a flower; and three calyxes, made like almonds, in another branch, a knop and a flower; so to the six branches which are coming out of the candlestick.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:21 - and a knop under the two branches of the same, and a knop under the two branches of the same, and a knop under the two branches of the same, are to the six branches which are coming out of it;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - a bekah for a poll (half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary,) for every one who is passing over unto those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, for six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:5 - 'And if a female she bear, then she hath been unclean two weeks, as in her separation; and sixty and six days she doth abide for the blood of her cleansing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:3

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:6 - and thou hast set them two ranks (six in the rank) on the pure table before Jehovah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:3 - 'Six years thou dost sow thy field, and six years thou dost prune thy vineyard, and hast gathered its increase,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - their numbered ones, for the tribe of Reuben, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25 - their numbered ones, for the tribe of Gad, are five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27 - their numbered ones, for the tribe of Judah, are four and seventy thousand and six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:46 - yea, all those numbered are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:4 - and his host, and their numbered ones, are four and seventy thousand and six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:9 - all those numbered of the camp of Judah are a hundred thousand, and eighty thousand, and six thousand, and four hundred, by their hosts; they journey first.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:11 - and his host, and its numbered ones, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:15 - and his host, and their numbered ones, are five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:31 - All those numbered of the camp of Dan are a hundred thousand, and seven and fifty thousand, and six hundred; at the rear they journey, by their standards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:32 - These are those numbered of the sons of Israel by the house of their fathers; all those numbered of the camps by their hosts are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28 - In number, all the males, from a son of a month and upward, are eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.

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