תֵּשַׁע tesah

Hebrew word for “nine” · Strong’s H8672 · used 58 times in 57 verses

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Meaning

1) nine, nonad; 1a) nine (as cardinal number); 1b) ninth (as ordinal number); 1c) in combination with other numbers

How it is translated

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

• nine 47
• nine- 7
• day nine 4

Where it is used

Also in 2 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 5 (6), Genesis 11 (3), Joshua 15 (3), Ezra 2 (3), Genesis 17 (2), Judges 4 (2), 2 Kings 15 (2), 2 Kings 18 (2), 2 Kings 25 (2), Nehemiah 7 (2)

Forms

• תשׁע 25
• ותשׁע 16
• תשׁעה 8
• בתשׁעה 4
• לתשׁעת 3
• לתשׁעה 1
• ותשׁעה 1

Words used with it

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

• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 27
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 21
• עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 12
• עָשָׂר asar “ten” 11
• שְׁלֹשִׁים sheloshim “thirty” 8
• חֹדֶשׁ chodesh “month” 7
• מָלַךְ malakh “to reign” 7
• יְרוּשָׁלִַם yerushalaim “Jerusalem” 8
• עִיר ir “city” 9
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 6
• שָׁלֹשׁ shalosh “three” 6
• מוּת mut “to die” 7

Key verses

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

• Genesis 5:5 — And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
• Genesis 17:1 — And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
• Leviticus 23:32 — It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your…
• Deuteronomy 3:11 — For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine…
• Judges 4:3 — And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
• 2 Kings 25:3 — And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
• 2 Chronicles 16:12 — And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but…
• Ezra 1:9 — And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
• Nehemiah 11:1 — And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts…
• Jeremiah 39:2 — And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
• Jeremiah 52:6 — And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
• Jeremiah 52:12 — Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the…

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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.