Six
שֵׁשׁStrong’s H8337shesh
Appears in 203 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “six”, “six-” and “about six”. It appears in 203 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.”
Meaning
- Sixsix (cardinal number) · sixth (ordinal number) · in combination with other numbers
How it's translated
- six 115
- and six 62
- six- 17
- for six 6
- and six- 6
- about six 4
- six of 2
- the six 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 28
- Exodus 27
- 1 Chronicles 21
- 2 Chronicles 21
- Ezra 14
- 2 Kings 10
22 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
- Genesis 8:13And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
- Genesis 16:16And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
- Genesis 30:20And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
- Genesis 31:41Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
- Genesis 46:18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
All 203 verses, by book
- Exodus 27
- 12:3714:716:2620:920:1121:223:1023:1224:1625:3225:3325:3526:926:2226:2528:1031:1531:1734:2135:236:1636:2736:3037:1837:1937:2138:26
- Numbers 28
- 1:211:251:271:462:42:92:112:152:312:323:283:344:407:311:2126:2226:4126:5131:3231:3731:3831:4031:4431:4631:5235:635:1335:15
- 1 Chronicles 21
- 3:43:224:277:27:47:408:389:69:99:4412:2412:2612:3520:621:2523:424:424:1425:325:2326:17
- 2 Chronicles 21
- 1:172:22:172:183:89:139:159:189:1913:2116:122:1226:126:326:1227:127:828:129:1729:3335:8
- Esther 1
- 2:12
- Proverbs 1
- 6:16
- Isaiah 1
- 6:2
Hebrew dictionary
שֵׁשׁ shesh · six
1) six 1a) six (cardinal number) 1b) sixth (ordinal number) 1c) in combination with other numbers Aramaic equivalent: shet (שֵׁת "six" H8353)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “six” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIX, adjective
[Latin sex; ]
Twice three; one more than five.
All definitions and other forms of “six”
SIX, noun
The number of six or twice three. To be at six and seven, or as more generally used, at sixes and sevens, is to be in disorder.
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.