שֵׁת
shêth · H8353 · Aramaic · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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six
State in which a countable entity is six in number
ExamplesEzra 6:15 Now this temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar; it was the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
Daniel 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made a statue of gold, the height of which was sixty cubits, and its width six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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
- ἕξ héx · G1803 · six
- Direct Greek equivalent for the Hebrew numeral 'six' (שֵׁת); standard translation equivalent in LXX and NT contexts where Hebrew numerals are rendered into Greek.
Semantic domains 5 entries
- Right002001003013
- This Right code is inherited from the shared listing with שֵׁת (shêth, H8351) (שֵׁת, 'foundation'); it does not independently apply to this word's own attested numeral 'six' sense.
- People001001003
- This People code is inherited from the shared listing with שֵׁתָה (shêthâh, H8357) (שֵׁתָה, 'buttock'); it does not independently apply to this word's own attested numeral 'six' sense.
- Names of People003001007
- This Names of People code is inherited from the shared listing with שֵׁת (Shêth, H8352) (the biblical name 'Seth'); it does not independently apply to this word's own attested numeral 'six' sense.
- Quantity002001001046
- Ezra 6:15 recounts that the temple was finished "on the third day of the month Adar; it was the sixth year of the reign of King Darius."
- Frequency002001003009
- Daniel 3:1 recounts that Nebuchadnezzar's golden statue was "sixty cubits" in height "and its width six cubits."
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8353. sheth or shith שִׁ֑ת שֵׁת, noun masculine six; — absolute שִׁ֑ת after feminine…
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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