תִּשְׁעִים
ninety
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 H8673 appears — 20 distinct verses across 8 books. 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.
Genesis 6 verses
- Genesis 5:9 תִּשְׁעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.
- Genesis 5:17 וְ/תִשְׁעִים֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:30 וְ/תִשְׁעִים֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 17:1 תִּשְׁעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
- Genesis 17:17 תִּשְׁעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"
- Genesis 17:24 תִּשְׁעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
1 Samuel 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Ezra 4 verses
- Ezra 2:16 תִּשְׁעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
- Ezra 2:20 תִּשְׁעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.
- Ezra 2:58 תִּשְׁעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety-two.
- Ezra 8:35 תִּשְׁעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin-offering: all this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.
Nehemiah 3 verses
- Nehemiah 7:21 תִּשְׁעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
- Nehemiah 7:25 תִּשְׁעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Gibeon, ninety-five.
- Nehemiah 7:60 תִּשְׁעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety-two.
Jeremiah 1 verse
Ezekiel 3 verses
- Ezekiel 4:5 וְ/תִשְׁעִ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 4:9 וְ/תִשְׁעִ֛ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make you bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, shall you eat of it.
- Ezekiel 41:12 תִּשְׁעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length of it ninety cubits.
Daniel 1 verse
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 תשעים centers on the idea of “ninety.” Its English rendering has broadened — “ninety” classically, “were” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 20 verses — uncommon. Genesis dominates its distribution — 6 of 20 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 5:9. Dig into 20-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8673 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 →
- 20
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 20 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,513
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,513 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 20 occurrences in the concordance →
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 20 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 9 verses · 45%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 6 verses · 30%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 25%
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: Ninety 14×, Was ninety 3×
- American Standard Version: Ninety 14×, Was ninety 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Age of ninety 1×, Ninety 1×, Ninety-nine 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Were 6×, Ninety 2×, Years 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8673 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 H8673 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 H8673 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 14 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8673 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 6 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.
- ninety
Word origin
n. indecl. ninety (archaic pl., DHMZMG xxxvii (1883), 9 f. PrätBAS i. 376, but cf.Ges§ 97 f.);—before n. sg.: שָׁנָה Gn 5:9; 17:17 +, אַמָּה Ez 41:12, יוֹם Ez 4:5, 9; less often after n.pl. אֵילִים Ezr 8:35, cf.Dn 12:11; in combination, ת׳ precedes units 1 S 4:15 + 7 times; foll. Gn 5:17, 30; ת׳ foll. 100 Ez 4:5, 9 + 4 times
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from תשע (têshaʻ) (H8672) — nine.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H8673 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| תִּשְׁעִ֥ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 41:12 | 12 |
| וְ/תִשְׁעִֽים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 12:11 | 2 |
| וְ/תִשְׁעִים֙ | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 5:17 | 2 |
| תִּשְׁעִ֣ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezra 8:35 | 2 |
| וְ/תִשְׁעִ֖ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 4:5 | 1 |
| וְ/תִשְׁעִ֛ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 4:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8673, 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
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 17 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 20 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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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.
