Word

שִׁשִּׁי

shishshîy · H8345 · Hebrew · 28 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. sixth

    State in which a countable entity is the sixth in a range

    Examples

    Genesis 1:31 And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

    Genesis 30:19 And Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

    Exodus 16:5 “On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.”

  2. sixth

    State in which an entity is one out of six equal parts

    Examples

    Ezekiel 4:11 “The water you drink shall be a sixth of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.

    Ezekiel 45:13 “This is the offering that you shall offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley;

    Ezekiel 46:14 “You shall also provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to the LORD continually by a permanent ordinance.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

4 occurrences in 4 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
ἕκτος héktos · G1623 · sixth
ἕκτος (héktos, G1623) is the direct Greek ordinal equivalent for שִׁשִּׁי (shishshîy, H8345), both denoting 'sixth' in ordinal counting sequences.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Quantity002001001046
This ordinal denotes the sixth in a series, as in Genesis 1:31's account of the sixth day of creation.
Frequency002001003009
The ordinal also marks a recurring position within a repeating cycle, as in Exodus 16:5's instruction that on the sixth day the people would gather twice as much bread.
Word family 10 words
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8345. shishshi שִׁשִּׁי masculine22 שִׁשִּׁית feminine6 adjective ordinal number sixth;…
H8345. shishshi
שִׁשִּׁי masculine22 שִׁשִּׁית feminine6
adjective ordinal number sixth; — הַשִּׁשִּׁי (הַ)יוֺם Gen 1:31 Gen 1:5t., etc.; הַשִּׁשִּׁית בַּשָּׁנָה Lev 25:21; Eze 8:1, etc.; construct הַהִין שִׁשִּׁית Eze 4:11 6th part of the hin, compare Eze 45:13; Eze 46:14; read ׳שׁ also Eze 45:13 b (see [ שִׁשָּׁה] infra).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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