Hebrew word · H8346

שִׁשִּׁים

shishim

sixty

Appears 59 times in 56 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

sixty, three score

Aramaic equivalent: shit.tin (שִׁתִּין "sixty" H8361)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

Genesis · 8
  1. Genesis 5:15 וְשִׁשִּׁ֣ים and sixty

    When Mahalalel was 65 years old, he became the father of Jared.

  2. Genesis 5:18 וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים and sixty

    When Jared was 162 years old, he became the father of Enoch.

  3. Genesis 5:20 וְשִׁשִּׁים֙ and sixty

    So Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died.

  4. Genesis 5:21 וְשִׁשִּׁ֖ים and sixty

    When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah.

  5. Genesis 5:23 וְשִׁשִּׁים֙ and sixty

    So Enoch lived a total of 365 years.

    Here: The tens figure. 'Five and sixty' is 65. That is the age at which Enoch fathered Methuselah (v. 21), and the number now reappears as the first part of the total.

  6. Genesis 5:27 וְשִׁשִּׁים֙ and sixty

    So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

  7. Genesis 25:26 שִׁשִּׁ֥ים sixty

    After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

  8. Genesis 46:26 שִׁשִּׁ֥ים [was] sixty

    All those belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt—his direct descendants, besides the wives of Jacob’s sons—numbered sixty-six persons.

Leviticus · 3
  1. Leviticus 12:5 וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים and sixty

    If, however, she gives birth to a daughter, the woman will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstruation. Then she must continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days.

  2. Leviticus 27:3 שִׁשִּׁ֣ים sixty

    if the valuation concerns a male from twenty to sixty years of age, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.

  3. Leviticus 27:7 שִׁשִּׁ֨ים sixty

    And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.

Numbers · 11
  1. Numbers 1:39 וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים and sixty

    those registered to the tribe of Dan numbered 62,700.

  2. Numbers 2:26 וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים and sixty

    and his division numbers 62,700.

  3. Numbers 3:50 וְשִׁשִּׁ֜ים and sixty

    He collected the money from the firstborn of the Israelites: 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

  4. Numbers 7:88 שִׁשִּׁים֙ שִׁשִּׁ֔ים שִׁשִּׁ֑ים sixty

    All the livestock sacrificed for the peace offering totaled twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty male lambs a year old. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.

  5. Numbers 26:25 וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים and sixty

    These were the clans of Issachar, and their registration numbered 64,300.

  6. Numbers 26:27 שִׁשִּׁ֥ים sixty

    These were the clans of Zebulun, and their registration numbered 60,500.

  7. Numbers 26:43 וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים and sixty

    All of them were Shuhamite clans, and their registration numbered 64,400.

    Here: 'And sixty.' Together with the previous word: sixty-four.

  8. Numbers 31:34 וְשִׁשִּׁ֖ים and sixty

    61,000 donkeys,

  9. Numbers 31:39 וְשִׁשִּֽׁים׃ and sixty

    30,500 donkeys, including a tribute to the LORD of 61,

Deuteronomy · 1
  1. Deuteronomy 3:4 שִׁשִּׁ֥ים sixty

    At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Joshua · 1
  1. Joshua 13:30 שִׁשִּׁ֥ים sixty

    The territory from Mahanaim through all Bashan—all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, including all the towns of Jair that are in Bashan, sixty cities;

2 Samuel · 1
  1. 2 Samuel 2:31 וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים and sixty

    but they had struck down 360 Benjamites who were with Abner.

1 Kings · 4
  1. 1 Kings 4:13 שִׁשִּׁים֙ sixty

    Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);

  2. 1 Kings 4:22 וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים and sixty

    Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,

  3. 1 Kings 6:2 שִׁשִּֽׁים־ [was] sixty

    The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

  4. 1 Kings 10:14 שִׁשִּׁ֥ים sixty

    The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,

2 Kings · 1
  1. 2 Kings 25:19 וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים and sixty

    Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as five royal advisors. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.

1 Chronicles · 6
  1. 1 Chronicles 2:21 שִׁשִּׁ֣ים sixty

    Later, Hezron slept with the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead. He had married her when he was sixty years old, and she bore to him Segub.

  2. 1 Chronicles 2:23 שִׁשִּׁ֣ים sixty

    But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.

  3. 1 Chronicles 5:18 וְשִׁשִּׁ֖ים and sixty

    The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 warriors—valiant men who carried the shield and sword, drew the bow, and were trained for battle.

  4. 1 Chronicles 9:13 וְשִׁשִּׁ֑ים and sixty

    and 1,760 of their relatives, the heads of their families, able men for the work of the service of the house of God.

    Here: 'And sixty': completes the figure 1,760. The parallel list in Nehemiah 11:12–14 has a different total (822 + 242 + 128 = 1,192).

  5. 1 Chronicles 16:38 שִׁשִּׁ֣ים sixty

    along with Obed-edom and his sixty-eight relatives. Obed-edom son of Jeduthun, and also Hosah, were to be gatekeepers.

  6. 1 Chronicles 26:8 שִׁשִּׁ֥ים sixty

    All these were descendants of Obed-edom; they and their sons and brothers were capable men with strength to do the work—62 in all from Obed-edom.

    Here: Part of the total head-count.

2 Chronicles · 5
  1. 2 Chronicles 3:3 שִׁשִּׁ֔ים sixty

    The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.

  2. 2 Chronicles 9:13 וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים and sixty

    The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,

  3. 2 Chronicles 11:21 שִׁשִּׁ֑ים וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים sixty, and sixty

    Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

  4. 2 Chronicles 12:3 וּבְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים and with sixty

    with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt—Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.

Ezra · 5
  1. Ezra 2:9 וְשִׁשִּֽׁים׃ ס and sixty

    the descendants of Zaccai, 760;

  2. Ezra 2:13 שִׁשִּׁ֥ים sixty

    the descendants of Adonikam, 666;

  3. Ezra 2:64 שִׁשִּֽׁים׃ sixty

    The whole assembly numbered 42,360,

    Here: This completes the total: 40,000 + 2,000 + 300 + 60 = 42,360.

  4. Ezra 8:10 וְשִׁשִּׁ֖ים and sixty

    from the descendants of Bani, Shelomith son of Josiphiah, and with him 160 men;

  5. Ezra 8:13 שִׁשִּׁ֥ים [were] sixty

    from the later descendants of Adonikam, these were their names: Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them 60 men;

Nehemiah · 6
  1. Nehemiah 7:14 וְשִׁשִּֽׁים׃ ס and sixty

    the descendants of Zaccai, 760;

  2. Nehemiah 7:18 שִׁשִּׁ֥ים sixty

    the descendants of Adonikam, 667;

  3. Nehemiah 7:19 שִׁשִּׁ֥ים sixty

    the descendants of Bigvai, 2,067;

  4. Nehemiah 7:66 וְשִׁשִּֽׁים׃ and sixty

    The whole assembly numbered 42,360,

  5. Nehemiah 7:72 שִׁשִּׁ֥ים sixty

    The rest of the people gave a total of 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priestly garments.

    Here: First part of the number 67.

  6. Nehemiah 11:6 שִׁשִּׁ֥ים sixty

    The descendants of Perez who settled in Jerusalem totaled 468 men of valor.

Song of Songs · 2
  1. Song of Songs 3:7 שִׁשִּׁ֥ים sixty

    Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage, escorted by sixty of the mightiest men of Israel.

  2. Song of Songs 6:8 שִׁשִּׁ֥ים [are] sixty

    There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number,

    Here: Comes first for emphasis: 'Sixty, that's how many…'. It's the first step in a rising count (sixty, eighty, past counting) that sets up the drop to 'one' in the next verse. Sixty also turns up in Song 3:7, where sixty warriors surround Solomon's carriage, so it may be a stock number for royal grandeur.

Isaiah · 1
  1. Isaiah 7:8 שִׁשִּׁ֤ים sixty

    For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.

Jeremiah · 1
  1. Jeremiah 52:25 וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים and sixty

    Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.

Ezekiel · 1
  1. Ezekiel 40:14 שִׁשִּׁ֣ים sixty

    Next he measured the gateposts to be sixty cubits high. The gateway extended around to the gatepost of the courtyard.

Daniel · 2
  1. Daniel 9:25 שִׁשִּׁ֣ים sixty

    Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.

    Here: "Sixty."

  2. Daniel 9:26 שִׁשִּׁ֣ים sixty

    Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.

    Here: Part of the number sixty-two, which gives the length of the middle period in the seventy-sevens scheme (7 + 62 + 1 = 70).

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