Sixth
שִׁשִּׁיStrong’s H8345shishshi (shish-shi)
Appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shishshi is the Hebrew word usually translated “sixth” and “sixth of”. It appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament.
“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”
Meaning
- Sixthsixth (ordinal number) · sixth (as fraction)
How it's translated
- sixth 14
- the sixth 8
- sixth of 3
- in the sixth 2
- and the sixth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 8
- Exodus 4
- Ezekiel 4
- Genesis 2
- Numbers 2
- Haggai 2
10 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 30:19And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
- Exodus 16:5And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
- Exodus 16:22And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
- Exodus 16:29See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
- Exodus 26:9And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.
- Leviticus 25:21Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁשִּׁי shishshi · sixth
1) sixth 1a) sixth (ordinal number) 1b) sixth (as fraction)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sixth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIXTH, adjective
The first after the fifth; the ordinal of six.
All definitions and other forms of “sixth”
SIXTH, noun
- The sixth part.
- In music, a hexachord, as interval of two kinds; the minor sixth consisting of three tones and two semitones major, and the major sixth composed of four tones and a major semitone.
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.