שְׁמִינִית
Sheminith
BDB lists 3 entries for ‘Sheminith’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8067 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Sheminith” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name שמינית (shᵉmîynîyth). It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in Psalms. Its earliest occurrence is 1 Chronicles 15:21. See 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8067 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 2 verses 67%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 33%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Sheminith 3×
- American Standard Version: Set to the sheminith 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sheminith 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sheminith 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8067 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8067 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8067 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8067 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Sheminith
- perhaps an eight-stringed musical instrument
- perhaps a musical notation, i.e. an octave
Word origin
שְׁמִינִי, שְׁמִינִית 31 adj. num. eighth
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שמיני (shᵉmîynîy) (H8066) — eighth.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שְׁמִינִי
- eighth; one eighth. Sifra Sh’mini, Milluim, beg. ש׳ למנין the eighth day in the order of counting (from the initiation of the priests); ש׳ לחדש the eighth day of the month. Y. Sabb. VIII, 11ᵃ bot.; Y. Pes. X, 37ᶜ bot. חצי שמינית half an eighth (of a Log); a. v. fr.—Esp. שמיני, or ש׳ של חג the eighth day of the Succoth festival. Succ. 47ᵃ אומרים זמן בש׳ של חג we recite the benediction for the entrance of a festival (זְמָן) on the eighth day &c. Ib., a. fr. ש׳ רגל וכ׳ the eighth day is a festival for itself; a. fr.—Pl. fem. שְׁמִינִיּוֹת. Yalk. Esth. 1048 ארבעים ש׳ (not שמציות) forty eighths (of a Kab), v. תּוֹמָן.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H8067 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֗ית | Adjective, Ordinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 6:1 | 2 |
| הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֖ית | Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 15:21 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Sheminith). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Eight; octave, a musical term, supposed to denote the lowest note sung by men's voices (1 Chr. 15:21; Ps. 6; 12, title).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(eighth), a musical term found in the title of (Psalms 6:1) A similar direction is found in the title of (Psalms 12:1) Comp. 1Chr 15:21 It seems most probable that Sheminith denotes a certain air known as the eighth, or a certain key in which the psalm was to be sung.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
eighth (an eight-stringed instrument)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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