Six

Usually translated “six”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• six 13

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• John 3
• Acts 3
• Luke 2
• Revelation 2
• Matthew 1
• Mark 1

7 books in all.

• Six (shesh)
• Six hundred (hexakosioi)
• Six (shet)

• Mark 9:2And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
• Luke 4:25But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
• Luke 13:14And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
• John 2:6And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
• John 2:20Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
• John 12:1Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “six” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.