Eighth
שְׁמִינִיStrong’s H8066shemini (she-mi-ni)
Appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shemini is the Hebrew word usually translated “eighth”. It appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,”
Meaning
- Eighth (ordinal number)
How it's translated
- eighth 23
- the eighth 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 10
- 1 Chronicles 5
- 1 Kings 4
- Numbers 3
- Exodus 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 22:30Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
- Leviticus 9:1And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
- Leviticus 12:3And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
- Leviticus 14:10And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
- Leviticus 14:23And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the LORD.
- Leviticus 15:14And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest:
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁמִינִי shemini · eighth
eighth (ordinal number)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “eighth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EIGHTH, adjective
aitth. Noting the number eight; the number next after seven; the ordinal of eight.
All definitions and other forms of “eighth”
EIGHTH, noun
In music, an interval composed of five tones and two semitones.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.