שִׁשִּׁים shishshim
Hebrew word for “sixty” · Strong’s H8346 · used 59 times in 56 verses
Meaning
sixty, three score; Aramaic equivalent: shit.tin (שִׁתִּין "sixty" H8361)
How it is translated
Glosses given for shishshim in context, with how often each is used:
- sixty 59
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers | 11 | 0.7 | |
| Genesis | 8 | 0.4 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 6 | 0.6 | |
| Nehemiah | 6 | 1.1 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 5 | 0.4 | |
| Ezra | 5 | 1.3 | |
| 1 Kings | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Leviticus | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Song of Solomon | 2 | 1.6 | |
| Daniel | 2 | 0.3 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Joshua | 1 | 0.1 |
Also in 5 more books.
Chapters where it is used most
Genesis 5 (6), Nehemiah 7 (5), Numbers 26 (3), Ezra 2 (3), Leviticus 27 (2), Numbers 31 (2), 1 Kings 4 (2), 1 Chronicles 2 (2), Ezra 8 (2), Daniel 9 (2)
Forms
- שׁשׁים 32
- ושׁשׁים 26
- ובשׁשׁים 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shishshim more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- מֵאָה meah “hundred” 25
- אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 15
- שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 14
- שֶׁבַע sheva “seven” 11
- חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 9
- אֶחָד echad “one” 9
- אַרְבַּע arba “four” 7
- שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 8
- שֵׁשׁ shesh “six” 6
- יָלַד yalad “to beget” 7
- שְׁלֹמֹה shelomoh “Solomon” 6
- אֲדֹנִיקָם adoniqam “Adonikam” 3
Key verses
The verses using shishshim that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Leviticus 27:3 — And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel…
- Joshua 13:30 — And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:
- 1 Kings 4:13 — The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob,…
- 1 Chronicles 2:23 — And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of…
- 2 Chronicles 11:21 — And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat…
- 2 Chronicles 12:3 — With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims,…
- Song of Solomon 3:7 — Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
- Song of Solomon 6:8 — There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
- Isaiah 7:8 — For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
- Ezekiel 40:14 — He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.
- Daniel 9:25 — Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks,…
- Daniel 9:26 — And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the…
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