תִּשְׁעִים tishim

Hebrew word for “ninety” · Strong’s H8673 · used 20 times in 20 verses

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Meaning

ninety

How it is translated

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

• ninety 20

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 5 (3), Genesis 17 (3), Ezra 2 (3), Nehemiah 7 (3), Ezekiel 4 (2), 1 Samuel 4 (1), 1 Chronicles 9 (1), Ezra 8 (1), Jeremiah 52 (1), Ezekiel 41 (1)

Forms

• תשׁעים 14
• ותשׁעים 6

Words used with it

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

• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 10
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 8
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 5
• שְׁמֹנֶה shemoneh “eight” 4
• אָטֵר ater “Ater” 2
• שָׁלֹשׁ shalosh “three” 4
• נְתִינִים natin “temple servant” 2
• שֵׁשׁ shesh “six” 3
• יָלַד yalad “to beget” 3
• תֵּשַׁע tesah “nine” 2
• שִׁבְעִים shivim “seventy” 2
• שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 3

Key verses

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

• 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.
• Genesis 17:17 — Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is…
• Genesis 17:24 — And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
• 1 Samuel 4:15 — Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
• 1 Chronicles 9:6 — And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.
• Ezra 2:58 — All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
• Ezra 8:35 — Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks…
• Nehemiah 7:60 — All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
• Ezekiel 4:5 — For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of…
• Ezekiel 4:9 — Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof,…
• Ezekiel 41:12 — Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick…
• Daniel 12:11 — And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and…

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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.