8346. shishshim

Strong's Lexicon

shishshim: Sixty

Original Word: שִׁשִּׁים
Part of Speech: Noun
Transliteration: shishshiym
Pronunciation: shish-sheem
Phonetic Spelling: (shish-sheem')
Definition: Sixty
Meaning: sixty

Word Origin: Derived from the Hebrew root שֵׁשׁ (shesh), meaning "six."

Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: The Greek equivalent for the number sixty is ἑξήκοντα (hexēkonta), Strong's Greek #1835.

Usage: The Hebrew word "shishshim" is used to denote the number sixty. It appears in various contexts throughout the Old Testament, often in genealogies, descriptions of quantities, and measurements. As a numeral, it is straightforward in its application, representing the integer value of sixty.

Cultural and Historical Background: In ancient Hebrew culture, numbers held significant symbolic meaning. The number sixty, being a multiple of six, is often associated with completeness and human effort, as six is one less than seven, the number of divine perfection. In the ancient Near East, the sexagesimal (base-60) system was prevalent, influencing time measurement (60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour) and geometry (360 degrees in a circle).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from the same as shesh
Definition
sixty
NASB Translation
1,365* (1), 1,760* (1), 160* (1), 2,067* (1), 42,360* (2), 44,760* (1), 468* (1), 60 (4), 60,000* (1), 60,500* (1), 61* (1), 61,000* (1), 62* (1), 62,700* (2), 64,300* (1), 64,400* (1), 65* (1), 666* (3), 667* (1), 67* (1), 68* (1), 760* (2), sixty (19), sixty-five* (3), sixty-nine* (1), sixty-six* (2), sixty-two* (4).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

שִׁשִּׁים₅₉ noun indeclinable sixty; — before singular noun: city Deuteronomy 3:4 4t., cubit 1 Kings 6:2; Ezekiel 40:14, man 2 Kings 25:19 = Jeremiah 52:25, day Leviticus 12:5, etc.; plural noun בָּנוֺת2Chronicles 11:21, compare Songs 3:7; after plural noun Numbers 7:88 (3 t. in verse); 2Chronicles 3:3; 11:21 +; שִׁשִּׁים אֶלֶף2Chronicles 12:3 +; ׳שׁ following units Genesis 5:15 12t.; ׳שׁ precedes unit Isaiah 7:8 12t.; ׳שׁ following 100 -1000 Ezra 8:10 11t.; precedes Genesis 5:18 8t.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

sixty, three score

Multiple of shesh; sixty -- sixty, three score.

see HEBREW shesh

Forms and Transliterations

וְשִׁשִּֽׁים׃ וְשִׁשִּׁ֑ים וְשִׁשִּׁ֖ים וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים וְשִׁשִּׁ֜ים וְשִׁשִּׁ֣ים וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים וְשִׁשִּׁים֙ וּבְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים ובששים וששים וששים׃ שִׁשִּֽׁים־ שִׁשִּֽׁים׃ שִׁשִּׁ֑ים שִׁשִּׁ֔ים שִׁשִּׁ֣ים שִׁשִּׁ֤ים שִׁשִּׁ֥ים שִׁשִּׁ֨ים שִׁשִּׁים֙ ששים ששים־ ששים׃ shishShim šiš·šîm šiš·šîm- šiššîm šiššîm- ū·ḇə·šiš·šîm ūḇəšiššîm uveshishShim veshishShim wə·šiš·šîm wəšiššîm

Englishman's Concordance

Genesis 5:15
HEB: חָמֵ֥שׁ שָׁנִ֖ים וְשִׁשִּׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד
NAS: lived sixty-five years,
INT: and five years sixty years and became

Genesis 5:18
HEB: יֶ֕רֶד שְׁתַּ֧יִם וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים שָׁנָ֖ה וּמְאַ֣ת
NAS: one hundred and sixty-two years,
INT: Jared and two sixty years hundred

Genesis 5:20
HEB: יֶ֔רֶד שְׁתַּ֤יִם וְשִׁשִּׁים֙ שָׁנָ֔ה וּתְשַׁ֥ע
NAS: hundred and sixty-two years,
KJV: were nine hundred sixty and two years:
INT: of Jared and two sixty years were nine

Genesis 5:21
HEB: חֲנ֔וֹךְ חָמֵ֥שׁ וְשִׁשִּׁ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד
NAS: lived sixty-five years,
KJV: And Enoch lived sixty and five years,
INT: Enoch and five sixty years and became

Genesis 5:23
HEB: חֲנ֑וֹךְ חָמֵ֤שׁ וְשִׁשִּׁים֙ שָׁנָ֔ה וּשְׁלֹ֥שׁ
NAS: hundred and sixty-five years.
KJV: hundred sixty and five
INT: of Enoch and five sixty years were three

Genesis 5:27
HEB: מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַח תֵּ֤שַׁע וְשִׁשִּׁים֙ שָׁנָ֔ה וּתְשַׁ֥ע
NAS: hundred and sixty-nine years,
KJV: hundred sixty and nine
INT: of Methuselah were nine sixty years were nine

Genesis 25:26
HEB: וְיִצְחָ֛ק בֶּן־ שִׁשִּׁ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה בְּלֶ֥דֶת
NAS: Jacob; and Isaac was sixty years old
KJV: and Isaac [was] threescore years
INT: and Isaac old was sixty years gave

Genesis 46:26
HEB: כָּל־ נֶ֖פֶשׁ שִׁשִּׁ֥ים וָשֵֽׁשׁ׃
NAS: sons, [were] sixty-six persons
KJV: all the souls [were] threescore and six;
INT: all persons threescore and six

Leviticus 12:5
HEB: שְׁבֻעַ֖יִם כְּנִדָּתָ֑הּ וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים יוֹם֙ וְשֵׁ֣שֶׁת
NAS: of [her] purification for sixty-six days.
KJV: of her purifying threescore and six
INT: weeks her menstruation threescore days and six

Leviticus 27:3
HEB: וְעַ֖ד בֶּן־ שִׁשִּׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וְהָיָ֣ה
NAS: years even to sixty years
KJV: years old even unto sixty years old,
INT: against old to sixty years then

Leviticus 27:7
HEB: וְ֠אִם מִבֶּן־ שִׁשִּׁ֨ים שָׁנָ֤ה וָמַ֙עְלָה֙
NAS: If [they are] from sixty years old
KJV: And if [it be] from sixty years old
INT: If old sixty years and upward

Numbers 1:39
HEB: דָ֑ן שְׁנַ֧יִם וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים אֶ֖לֶף וּשְׁבַ֥ע
KJV: of Dan, [were] threescore and two
INT: of Dan and two threescore thousand and seven

Numbers 2:26
HEB: וּפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם שְׁנַ֧יִם וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים אֶ֖לֶף וּשְׁבַ֥ע
KJV: and those that were numbered of them, [were] threescore and two
INT: were numbered and two of them threescore thousand and seven

Numbers 3:50
HEB: הַכָּ֑סֶף חֲמִשָּׁ֨ה וְשִׁשִּׁ֜ים וּשְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵא֛וֹת
KJV: hundred and threescore and five
INT: the money and five and threescore three hundred

Numbers 7:88
HEB: פָּרִים֒ אֵילִ֤ם שִׁשִּׁים֙ עַתֻּדִ֣ים שִׁשִּׁ֔ים
NAS: [all] the rams 60, the male goats
KJV: the rams sixty, the he goats
INT: bullocks the rams goats

Numbers 7:88
HEB: שִׁשִּׁים֙ עַתֻּדִ֣ים שִׁשִּׁ֔ים כְּבָשִׂ֥ים בְּנֵי־
NAS: the male goats 60, the male lambs
KJV: the he goats sixty, the lambs
INT: goats the lambs of the first

Numbers 7:88
HEB: בְּנֵי־ שָׁנָ֖ה שִׁשִּׁ֑ים זֹ֚את חֲנֻכַּ֣ת
NAS: old 60This
KJV: year sixty. This [was] the dedication
INT: of the first year likewise the dedication

Numbers 26:25
HEB: לִפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם אַרְבָּעָ֧ה וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים אֶ֖לֶף וּשְׁלֹ֥שׁ
KJV: according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four
INT: were numbered and four threescore thousand and three

Numbers 26:27
HEB: הַזְּבוּלֹנִ֖י לִפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם שִׁשִּׁ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ
NAS: according to those who were numbered of them, 60,500.
KJV: according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand
INT: of the Zebulunites were numbered threescore thousand and five

Numbers 26:43
HEB: לִפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם אַרְבָּעָ֧ה וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים אֶ֖לֶף וְאַרְבַּ֥ע
KJV: according to those that were numbered of them, [were] threescore and four
INT: were numbered and four of them threescore thousand and four

Numbers 31:34
HEB: וַחֲמֹרִ֕ים אֶחָ֥ד וְשִׁשִּׁ֖ים אָֽלֶף׃
KJV: And threescore and one thousand
INT: donkeys and one and threescore thousand

Numbers 31:39
HEB: לַֽיהוָ֖ה אֶחָ֥ד וְשִׁשִּֽׁים׃
KJV: tribute [was] threescore and one.
INT: the LORD'S and one threescore

Deuteronomy 3:4
HEB: לָקַ֖חְנוּ מֵֽאִתָּ֑ם שִׁשִּׁ֥ים עִיר֙ כָּל־
NAS: we did not take from them: sixty cities,
KJV: which we took not from them, threescore cities,
INT: did not take sixty cities all

Joshua 13:30
HEB: אֲשֶׁ֥ר בַּבָּשָׁ֖ן שִׁשִּׁ֥ים עִֽיר׃
NAS: which are in Bashan, sixty cities;
KJV: which [are] in Bashan, threescore cities:
INT: which Bashan sixty cities

2 Samuel 2:31
HEB: שְׁלֹשׁ־ מֵא֧וֹת וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים אִ֖ישׁ מֵֽתוּ׃
NAS: hundred and sixty men
KJV: hundred and threescore men
INT: three hundred and sixty men died

59 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 8346
59 Occurrences

šiš·šîm — 32 Occ.
ū·ḇə·šiš·šîm — 1 Occ.
wə·šiš·šîm — 26 Occ.