Nine
תֵּ֫שַׁעStrong’s H8672tesah (te-sah)
Appears in 57 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tesah is the Hebrew word usually translated “nine”, “nine-” and “on nine”. It appears in 57 verses of the Old Testament.
“And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.”
Meaning
- Nine, nonadnine (as cardinal number) · ninth (as ordinal number) · in combination with other numbers
How it's translated
- nine 27
- and nine 17
- nine- 6
- on nine 4
- to nine 2
- for nine 1
- for nine- 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 12
- 2 Kings 8
- Joshua 7
- Numbers 4
- 1 Chronicles 4
- Ezra 4
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 5:8And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
- Genesis 5:11And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
- Genesis 5:14And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
- Genesis 5:20And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
- Genesis 5:27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
- Genesis 9:29And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
All 57 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
תֵּ֫שַׁע tesah · nine
1) nine, nonad 1a) nine (as cardinal number) 1b) ninth (as ordinal number) 1c) in combination with other numbers
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “nine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NINE, adjective
Denoting the number composed of eight and one; as nine men; nine days.
All definitions and other forms of “nine”
NINE, noun
The number composed of eight and one; or the number less by a unit than ten; three times three.
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.