שִׁשִּׁי shishshi
Hebrew word for “sixth” · Strong’s H8345 · used 28 times in 26 verses
Meaning
1) sixth; 1a) sixth (ordinal number); 1b) sixth (as fraction)
How it is translated
Glosses given for shishshi in context, with how often each is used:
- sixth 25
- sixth month 2
- sixth part 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Chronicles | 9 | 0.8 | |
| Ezekiel | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Exodus | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Genesis | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Numbers | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Haggai | 2 | 3.3 | |
| Leviticus | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Joshua | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Nehemiah | 1 | 0.2 |
Chapters where it is used most
Exodus 16 (3), 1 Chronicles 26 (2), Haggai 1 (2), Genesis 1 (1), Genesis 30 (1), Exodus 26 (1), Leviticus 25 (1), Numbers 7 (1), Numbers 29 (1), Joshua 19 (1)
Forms
- השׁשׁי 18
- השׁשׁית 3
- שׁשׁית 3
- בשׁשׁי 2
- שׁשׁי 1
- והשׁשׁי 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shishshi more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שְׁבִיעִי shevii “seventh” 5
- חֲמִישִׁי chamishi “fifth” 3
- יִתְרְעָם yitream “Ithream” 2
- עֶגְלָה eglah “Eglah” 2
- חֹדֶשׁ chodesh “month” 4
- שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 5
- שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 5
- דָּרְיָוֶשׁ daryavesh “Darius” 2
- הִין hin “hin” 2
- אֵיפָה ephah “ephah” 2
- אַרְבַּע arba “four” 3
- לָקַט laqat “to gather” 2
Key verses
The verses using shishshi that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 1:31 — And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
- Exodus 16:5 — And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
- Exodus 16:22 — And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
- Exodus 16:29 — See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man…
- Leviticus 25:21 — Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
- Numbers 7:42 — On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad,
- Joshua 19:32 — The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.
- 1 Chronicles 2:15 — Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:
- Ezekiel 8:1 — And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that…
- Ezekiel 46:14 — And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a…
- Haggai 1:1 — In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the…
- Haggai 1:15 — In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
See all 26 verses in the Word Atlas
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.