Six
שֵׁתStrong’s H8353shet
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shet is the Aramaic word usually translated “six”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.”
Meaning
- Six (as cardinal number)
How it's translated
- six 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
- Daniel 1
2 books in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
שֵׁת shet · six
six (as cardinal number) Aramaic of shesh (שֵׁשׁ "six" H8337)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.