שֵׁשׁ
shêsh · shaysh
six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. sixth
Lexicon
Derivation: masculine שִׁשָּׁה; a primitive number; compare H7797 (שׂוּשׂ)
six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. sixth
- six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand)
- as ord. sixth
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: six(-teen, -teenth), sixth.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › to consume, to destroy
To consume, to destroy that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שֵׁשׁ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
216 occurrences · 216 OT · 0 NT · 56 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- six62 · 34%
- and six56 · 31%
- sixteen10 · 5%
- were six7 · 4%
- was six7 · 4%
- for six4 · 2%
- these six4 · 2%
- had six4 · 2%
- thee six3 · 2%
- were sixteen2 · 1%
- of the same, according to the six2 · 1%
- by themselves, and six2 · 1%
- for in six2 · 1%
- and sixteen2 · 1%
- the sixteenth2 · 1%
- there on the one side and on the other upon the six2 · 1%
- with the six2 · 1%
- of six2 · 1%
- the six2 · 1%
- so in the six1 · 1%
- it six1 · 1%
- about six1 · 1%
- even sixteen1 · 1%
- him six1 · 1%
- and it came to pass in the six1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.