שְׁמֹנֶה shemoneh

Hebrew word for “eight” · Strong’s H8083 · used 109 times in 105 verses

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Meaning

1) eight, eighth; 1a) eight (as cardinal number); 1b) eighth (as ordinal number); 1c) in combination with other numbers

How it is translated

Glosses given for shemoneh in context, with how often each is used:

• eight 78
• eight- 28
• eight sons 1
• will be eight 1
• will be eight- 1

Where it is used

Also in 6 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Nehemiah 7 (10), Genesis 5 (7), Ezekiel 40 (5), 1 Chronicles 12 (4), Ezra 2 (4), Nehemiah 11 (4), 2 Chronicles 34 (3), Ezra 8 (3), Exodus 26 (2), Exodus 36 (2)

Forms

• שׁמנה 34
• ושׁמנה 33
• שׁמונה 17
• ושׁמונה 9
• שׁמנת 6
• בשׁמנה 3
• לשׁמונה 2
• בשׁמונה 2
• ושׁמנת 1
• ושׁמונת 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shemoneh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עָשָׂר asar “ten” 37
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 37
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 36
• מָלַךְ malakh “to reign” 17
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 18
• עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 16
• שְׁלֹשִׁים sheloshim “thirty” 13
• שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 16
• שֵׁשׁ shesh “six” 10
• יְרוּשָׁלִַם yerushalaim “Jerusalem” 11
• אֶחָד echad “one” 11
• יְהוּדָה yehudah “Judah” 11

Key verses

The verses using shemoneh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 14:14 — And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them…
• Deuteronomy 2:14 — And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of…
• Judges 3:8 — Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel…
• 1 Samuel 17:12 — Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the…
• 2 Kings 24:12 — And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of…
• 1 Chronicles 18:12 — Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.
• 2 Chronicles 34:1 — Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
• 2 Chronicles 34:3 — For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge…
• Ezra 8:18 — And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with…
• Ecclesiastes 11:2 — Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.
• Ezekiel 48:35 — It was round about eighteen thousand and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
• Micah 5:5 — And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.