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title: שֵׁשׁ — six · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֵׁשׁ (8337), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 215 times: six. BDB 1906: n.m. f.six n.f. n.f. n.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֵׁשׁ

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«שֵׁשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **six** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 215 times · **Key:** 8337 · **BDB:** שֵׁשׁ

### Glosses

six (160); six- (18); the.six (11)

### Meaning (OSHB)

six [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8337/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. f.six n.f. n.f. n.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8337/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. et f.six;—m. שֵׁשׁ (c. n.f.) Gn 31:41 + 120 times; f. שִׁשָּׁה (c. n.m.) 30:20 + 39 times; cstr. שֵׁ֫שֶׁת Ex 23:12 + 30 times (6 + 10 = 16 are additional);—six (Hex chiefly P): no other num.: bef. n.pl. 75 times: e.g. שֵׁשׁ שָׁנִים Ex 21:2 (E) + 11 times, שֵׁשׁ אַמּוֹת 1 S 17:4 + 8 times; שֵׁשׁ בָּאַמָּה †1 K 6:6; שִׁשָּׁה בָּנִים Gn 30:20 (E) + 2 times; שֵׁשֶׁת יָמִים Ex 23:12 (E) + 14 times; after n. (late) †Ex 28:2 Jos 15:59, 62 (all P), 1 Ch 4:27; 26:17; Ne 5:18; rarely n. om. Lv 24:6 (P) + (distrib. 2 S 21:20 = 1 Ch 20:6). = ordin. שְׁנַת שֵׁשׁ לְחִזְק׳ 2 K 18:10 (Ges§ 134 o). 16, c. n.f.: שֵׁשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה, bef. נָ֑פֶשׁ Gn 46:18 (P), שָׁנָה 2 K 13:10 + 9 times, בָּנוֹת 2 Ch 13:21; after עָרִים Jos 15:41; 19:22 (P); c. n.m. שִׁשָׁה עָשָׂר, bef. אֲדָנִים Ex 26:25; 36:30 (P), also אֶלֶף, 1000, Nu 31:40 + (P); after בָּנִים 1 Ch 4:27, etc.; = ordin. 16th 1 Ch 24:14; 25:23 +, יוֹם שׁ׳ ע׳ 2 Ch 29:17. 600 = שֵׁשׁ מֵאוֹת, Gn 7:6 (P) + 63 times; 6000 = שֵׁשֶׁת אֲלָפִים Nu 3:34 (P) + 8 times; שׁ׳ אֶלֶף Ju 20:15 + 2 times c. tens, שׁ׳ foll. Gn 46:26 + 13 times, precedes Nu 31:44 (P). שׁ׳ as round no., חָמֵשׁ אוֹ־שׁ׳ 2 K 13:19, cf. Jb 5:19 Pr 6:16.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 34 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (15 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֵׁשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8337/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 2:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.22/)

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אַנְשֵׁ֥י נְטֹפָ֖ה חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וְשִׁשָּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* the.men of.Netophah fifty and six

*JPS 1917:* The men of Netophah, fifty and six.

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[Numbers 31:44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.44/)

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וּבָקָ֕ר שִׁשָּׁ֥ה וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים אָֽלֶף׃

*Word for word:* and cattle six and thirty thousand

*JPS 1917:* and thirty and six thousand beeves,

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