Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H8337

שֵׁשׁ

shesh · “six”

Used 215 times across 22 books

Definition

1) six
1a) six (cardinal number)
1b) sixth (ordinal number)
1c) in combination with other numbers
Aramaic equivalent: shet (שֵׁת "six" H8353)

Where it appears

Genesis

8

Exodus

28

Leviticus

5

Numbers

28

Deuteronomy

4

Joshua

7

Judges

7

Ruth

2

1 Samuel

8

2 Samuel

6

1 Kings

10

2 Kings

10

1 Chronicles

24

2 Chronicles

22

Ezra

15

Nehemiah

9

Esther

2

Job

2

Proverbs

1

Isaiah

2

Jeremiah

3

Ezekiel

12

In the text

Genesis 7:6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.Genesis 8:13And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.Genesis 16:16And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.Genesis 30:20And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.Genesis 31:41Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.Genesis 46:18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.Genesis 46:26All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were threescore and six;Exodus 12:37And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.Exodus 14:7And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.

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