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Ninety

תִּשְׁעִיםStrong’s H8673

tishim (tish-im)

Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Tishim is the Hebrew word usually translated “ninety”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.

“And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.”
Daniel 12:11 KJV
Meaning
  1. Ninety
How it's translated
  • ninety 14
  • and ninety 6

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

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 6
  • Ezra 4
  • Nehemiah 3
  • Ezekiel 3
  • 1 Samuel 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

8 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

תִּשְׁעִים tishim · ninety

ninety

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

NI'NETY, adjective

Nine times ten; as ninety years.

    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.