שִׁשִּׁים
shishshîym · shish-sheem'
sixty
Lexicon
Derivation: multiple of H8337 (שֵׁשׁ);
sixty
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: sixty, three score.
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
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › to consume, to destroy › the hand that works › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To consume, to destroy that works to consume, to destroy of the hand that works of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שִׁשִּׁים 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
59 occurrences · 59 OT · 0 NT · 19 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and threescore19 · 32%
- sixty10 · 17%
- threescore10 · 17%
- was threescore3 · 5%
- were threescore3 · 5%
- of them, were threescore2 · 3%
- of them, threescore2 · 3%
- even unto sixty1 · 2%
- and if it be from sixty1 · 2%
- not from them, threescore1 · 2%
- thereof was threescore1 · 2%
- when he was threescore1 · 2%
- thereof, even threescore1 · 2%
- and with them threescore1 · 2%
- there are threescore1 · 2%
- and within threescore1 · 2%
- of threescore1 · 2%
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.