שֵׁשׁ
shesh
“six”
Definition
six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. sixth
masculine שִׁשָּׁה; a primitive number; compare H7797 (שׂוּשׂ)
- six 1a) six (cardinal number) 1b) sixth (ordinal number) 1c) in combination with other numbers Aramaic equivalent: shet (*שֵׁת *"six" H8353)
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun
H:N
Hebrew Noun
Occurrences
שֵׁשׁ appears 195 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
And there was still another battle at Gath, where there was a man of great stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was descended from Rapha,
All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
and the descendants of Senaah, 3,630.
Each day one ox, six choice sheep, and some fowl were prepared for me, and once every ten days an abundance of all kinds of wine was provided. But I did not demand the food allotted to the governor, because the burden on the people was so heavy.
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