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Ninth

תְּשִׁיעִיStrong’s H8671

teshii (te-shi-i)

Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Teshii is the Hebrew word usually translated “ninth”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.

“And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;”
Zechariah 7:1 KJV
Meaning
  1. Ninth (as ordinal number)
How it's translated
  • ninth 12
  • the ninth 4
  • of the ninth 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Chronicles 4
  • Jeremiah 4
  • 2 Kings 2
  • Haggai 2
  • Leviticus 1
  • Numbers 1

9 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

תְּשִׁיעִי teshii · ninth

ninth (as ordinal number)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “ninth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

NINTH, adjective

The ordinal of nine; designating the number nine, the next preceding ten; as the ninth day or month.

    All definitions and other forms of “ninth”

      NINTH, noun

      In music, an interval containing an octave and a tone.

        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.