שִׁשִּׁי
shishshîy · shish-shee'
sixth, ord. or (feminine) fractional
Lexicon
Derivation: from H8337 (שֵׁשׁ);
sixth, ord. or (feminine) fractional
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: sixth (part).
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
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › to consume, to destroy › the hand that works
To consume, to destroy that works to consume, to destroy of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שִׁשִּׁי 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
28 occurrences · 28 OT · 0 NT · 19 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the sixth12 · 43%
- the sixth part3 · 11%
- in the sixth2 · 7%
- were the sixth1 · 4%
- and it shall come to pass, that on the sixth1 · 4%
- and it came to pass, that on the sixth1 · 4%
- you on the sixth1 · 4%
- upon you in the sixth1 · 4%
- on the sixth1 · 4%
- and on the sixth1 · 4%
- and the sixth1 · 4%
- captain for the sixth1 · 4%
- and it came to pass in the sixth1 · 4%
- of the sixth1 · 4%
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.