שְׁמֹנֶה
she.mo.neh
“eight”
Definition
a cardinal number, eight (as if a surplus above the 'perfect' seven); also (as ordinal) eighth
or שְׁמוֹנֶה; feminine שְׁמֹנָה; or שְׁמוֹנָה; apparently from H8082 (שָׁמֵן) through the idea of plumpness;
- eight, eighth 1a) eight (as cardinal number) 1b) eighth (as ordinal number) 1c) in combination with other numbers
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun
H:N
Hebrew Noun
Occurrences
שְׁמֹנֶה appears 100 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
along with Obed-edom and his sixty-eight relatives. Obed-edom son of Jeduthun, and also Hosah, were to be gatekeepers.
They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the LORD. For eight more days they consecrated the house of the LORD itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.
Divide your portion among seven, or even eight,for you do not know what disaster may befall the land.
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
The descendants of Perez who settled in Jerusalem totaled 468 men of valor.
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