שִׁשִּׁיshishshîy

sixth (Genesis 1:31; Leviticus 25:21; Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 4:11; Ezekiel 45:13)

Pronunciation: shish-shee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8345

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 28 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 1:31 Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day.
  • Genesis 30:19 Then Leah became pregnant again and gave birth to a sixth son for Jacob.
  • Exodus 16:5 On the sixth day they will gather food, and when they prepare it, there will be twice as much as usual.”
  • Exodus 16:22 On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much as usual—four quarts for each person instead of two. Then all the leaders of the community came and asked Moses for an explanation.
  • Exodus 16:29 They must realize that the Sabbath is the Lord’s gift to you. That is why he gives you a two-day supply on the sixth day, so there will be enough for two days. On the Sabbath day you must each stay in your place. Do not go out to pick up food on the seventh day.”
  • Exodus 26:9 Join five of these curtains together to make one long curtain, and join the other six into a second long curtain. Allow 3 feet of material from the second set of curtains to hang over the front of the sacred tent.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).