שִׁשִּׁים
sixty
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H8346 appears in the Book of 2 Samuel — 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.
2 Samuel
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.
The Hebrew noun ששים centers on the idea of “sixty.” The King James Version usually renders it “threescore,” while modern versions prefer “were” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 56 verses in 17 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Genesis 5:15, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside שש, ששה and ששי. Dig into 56-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8346 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 →
- 56
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 56 distinct verses.
- 17 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 17 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #647
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 647 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 56 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 9 verses 16%
- Genesis 8 verses 14%
- 1 Chronicles 6 verses 11%
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 56 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 25 verses · 45%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 21 verses · 38%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 18%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Threescore 34×, Sixty 11×, Were threescore 5×
- American Standard Version†: Threescore 32×, Sixty 10×, Them 5×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Sixty 18×, Sixty-six 2×, Sixty-two 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Were 9×, Sixty 6×, And 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8346 across 59† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8346 across 59† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8346 across 28† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 31 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8346 across 30† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 29 further occurrences.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- sixty, three score
Word origin
n. indecl. sixty;—bef. n. sg.: city Dt 3:4 + 4 times, cubit 1 K 6:2 Ez 40:14, man 2 K 25:19 = Je 52:25, day Lv 12:5, etc.; n.pl. בָּנוֹת 2 Ch 11:21, cf. Ct 3:7; after n.pl. Nu 7:88(×3) 2 Ch 3:3; 11:21 +; שִׁשִּׁים אֶלֶף 2 Ch 12:3 +; שׁ׳ foll. units Gn 5:15 + 12 times; שׁ׳ precedes unit Is 7:8 + 12 times; שׁ׳ foll. 100 (1000) Ezr 8:10 + 11 times; precedes Gn 5:18 + 8 times
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שש (shêsh) (H8337) — six.
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.
שֵׁשׁ
- six. Pes. V, 1 (58ᵃ) בששה ומחצה (Y. a. Bab. ed. בשש) at six hours and a half (from sunrise). Y. ib. IV, beg. 30ᶜ משש שעות ולמעלן after six hours (noon); משש שעות ולמען before noon. Yoma 21ᵇ שש אשות הן there are six kinds of fire. Pes. 49ᵇ ש׳ דברים נאמרו וכ׳ six things have been said concerning ignorant people; a. v. fr.—Constr. m. שֵׁשֶׁת. Snh. 97ᵃ; Ab. Zar. 9ᵃ; v. שָׁנָה II; a. fr.—Pl. שִׁשִּׁים sixty. B. Kam. 58ᵇ סאה בש׳ סאין the damage to a field of one S’ah is assessed by calculation from a field of sixty S’ahs (so as to arrive at a fair estimate). Ib. בש׳ taking as a basis for calculation sixty times the quantity under dispute; ib. 59ᵃ; a. e.—Ḥull. 97ᵇ בש׳ (sub. בטל) is neutralized in a quantity sixty times as large. Ex. R. s. 1 ש׳ בכרס אחד sixty at one birth. Y. Taan. IV, 68ᶜ top ש׳ רבוא sixty myriads. Succ. 51ᵇ; a. fr.
שִׁשִּׁים
- , v. שֵׁשׁ III
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 17 distinct written forms H8346 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שִׁשִּׁ֥ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 3:4 | 15 |
| שִׁשִּׁ֣ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 9:25 | 7 |
| וְ/שִׁשִּׁ֛ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 5:18 | 6 |
| וְ/שִׁשִּׁ֥ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 4:22 | 6 |
| וְ/שִׁשִּׁ֖ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezra 8:10 | 4 |
| וְ/שִׁשִּֽׁים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezra 2:9 | 4 |
| וְ/שִׁשִּׁים֙ | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 5:20 | 3 |
| שִׁשִּׁ֑ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 11:21 | 2 |
| שִׁשִּׁ֔ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 3:3 | 2 |
| שִׁשִּֽׁים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezra 2:64 | 2 |
| שִׁשִּׁים֙ | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 4:13 | 2 |
| וְ/שִׁשִּׁ֑ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 9:13 | 1 |
| וְ/שִׁשִּׁ֜ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Numbers 3:50 | 1 |
| וְ/שִׁשִּׁ֣ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 5:15 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/שִׁשִּׁ֥ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 12:3 | 1 |
| שִׁשִּׁ֤ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 7:8 | 1 |
| שִׁשִּׁ֨ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Leviticus 27:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8346, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 49 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 56 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 5:15
- Leviticus 12:5
- Numbers 1:39
- Deuteronomy 3:4
- Joshua 13:30
- 2 Samuel 2:31
- 1 Kings 4:13
- 2 Kings 25:19
- 1 Chronicles 2:21
- 2 Chronicles 3:3
- Ezra 2:9
- Song of Solomon 3:7
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
