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שֵׁשׁ
shêsh · Hebrew · Strong's H8337 · 215 occurrences
The KJV renders 3 different Hebrew words as “teenth”
What it means
six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. sixth
masculine שִׁשָּׁה; a primitive number; compare H7797 (שׂוּשׂ)
How the KJV renders it
sixteen, teenth, sixth
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“sixth”
also renders héktos (G1623)
Answers that weigh this word
- Does Colossians 2:16 abolish the Sabbath?
- Is the seventh-day Sabbath binding on Gentiles?
- What does Romans 14:5 mean about esteeming one day above another?
- Is the Christian Sabbath Saturday or Sunday?
- Was the Sabbath given before Sinai?
- Is the Sabbath command moral law or ceremonial law?
Where it appears
215 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 3:4 · HAcmsa
six were born to him in Hebron; and he reigned there seven years and six months. He reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem;
1 Chronicles 3:22 · HAcmsa
The son of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. The sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
1 Chronicles 4:27 · HAcfsa
Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn’t have many children, and all their family didn’t multiply like the children of Judah.
1 Chronicles 7:2 · HC/Acfsa
The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
1 Chronicles 7:4 · HC/Acmsa
With them, by their generations, after their fathers’ houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
1 Chronicles 7:40 · HC/Acmsa
All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
1 Chronicles 8:38 HAcmsa1 Chronicles 9:6 HAcfsa1 Chronicles 9:9 HC/Acmsa1 Chronicles 9:44 HAcmsa1 Chronicles 12:24 HAcmsc1 Chronicles 12:26 HC/Acfsa1 Chronicles 12:35 HC/Acfsa1 Chronicles 20:6 HAcfsa1 Chronicles 21:25 HAcfsa1 Chronicles 23:4 HAcmsc1 Chronicles 24:4 HAcmsa1 Chronicles 24:14 HAcmsa1 Chronicles 25:3 HAcmsa1 Chronicles 25:23 HR/Acmsa1 Chronicles 26:17 HAcmsa1 Kings 6:6 HAcfsa1 Kings 10:14 HAcfsa1 Kings 10:16 HAcfsa1 Kings 10:19 HAcfsa1 Kings 10:20 HAcfsa1 Kings 10:29 HR/Acfsa1 Kings 11:16 HAcmsc1 Kings 16:8 HC/Acfsa1 Kings 16:23 HAcfsa1 Samuel 13:5 HC/Acmsc1 Samuel 13:15 HR/Acfsa1 Samuel 14:2 HR/Acfsa1 Samuel 17:4 HAcfsa1 Samuel 17:7 HAcfsa1 Samuel 23:13 HR/Acfsa1 Samuel 27:2 HC/Acfsa1 Samuel 30:9 HC/Acfsa2 Chronicles 1:17 HR/Acfsa2 Chronicles 2:2 HC/Acfsa2 Chronicles 2:17 HC/Acfsa2 Chronicles 2:18 HC/Acfsa2 Chronicles 3:8 HAcfsa2 Chronicles 9:13 HAcfsa2 Chronicles 9:15 HAcfsa2 Chronicles 9:18 HC/Acfsa2 Chronicles 9:19 HAcfsa2 Chronicles 13:21 HC/Acfsa2 Chronicles 16:1 HC/Acfsa2 Chronicles 22:12 HAcfsa2 Chronicles 26:1 HAcfsa2 Chronicles 26:3 HAcfsa2 Chronicles 26:12 HC/Acfsa2 Chronicles 27:1 HC/Acfsa2 Chronicles 27:8 HC/Acfsa2 Chronicles 28:1 HC/Acfsa2 Chronicles 29:17 HAcmsa2 Chronicles 29:33 HAcfsa2 Chronicles 35:8 HC/Acfsa2 Kings 5:5 HC/Acmsc
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