Sixty
שִׁתִּיןStrong’s H8361shittin (shit-tin)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shittin is the Aramaic word usually translated “sixty”. It appears in 3 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
- Sixty, threescore
How it's translated
- sixty 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 5:31In contextAnd Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
- Ezra 6:3In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
Aramaic dictionary
שִׁתִּין shittin · sixty
sixty, threescore Aramaic of shish.shim (שִׁשִּׁים "sixty" H8346)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.