שֵׁשׁ
šēš
six
Strong's H8337NounHebrewTWOT 2336a

שֵׁשׁ (šēš) is a Hebrew noun meaning six. It appears 215 times in 22 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H8337).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2336a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 2336a)six; sixth; sixteen, sixteenth
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

שֵׁשׁ noun, masculine: six

Strong's H8337 שֵׁשׁ: six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ordinal sixth
KJV:six(-teen, -teenth), sixth.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 2336: שׁדשׁ šdš — Root of: שֵׁשׁ six; שִׁשָּׁה give sixth part of; שִׁשִּׁי sixth; שִׁשִּׁים sixty

See it in Scripture

Genesis 7:6Exodus 12:37Leviticus 12:5

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