Sixty
שִׁשִּׁיםStrong’s H8346shishshim (shish-shim)
Appears in 56 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shishshim is the Hebrew word usually translated “sixty”. It appears in 56 verses of the Old Testament.
“Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.”
Meaning
- Sixty, three score
How it's translated
- sixty 32
- and sixty 26
- and with sixty 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 9
- Genesis 8
- 1 Chronicles 6
- Nehemiah 6
- Ezra 5
- 1 Kings 4
17 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 9:26In contextAnd after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
- Genesis 5:15And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
- Genesis 5:18And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
- Genesis 5:20And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
- Genesis 5:21And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
- Genesis 5:23And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
All 56 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁשִּׁים shishshim · sixty
sixty, three score Aramaic equivalent: shit.tin (שִׁתִּין "sixty" H8361)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sixty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIX'TY, adjective
Ten times six.
All definitions and other forms of “sixty”
SIX'TY, noun
The number of six times ten.
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.