Aramaic word · H8361

שִׁתִּין

shitin

sixty

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears 4 times in 3 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament. ·

What it means

sixty, threescore

Aramaic of shish.shim (שִׁשִּׁים "sixty" H8346)

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

Where it appears

Ezra · 2

  1. Ezra 6:3 שִׁתִּ֔ין שִׁתִּֽין׃ sixty

    In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,

    Here: Sixty cubits is roughly 27–31 m, twice the height Solomon's temple is given in 1 Kings 6:2 (30 cubits).

Daniel · 2

  1. Daniel 3:1 שִׁתִּ֔ין sixty

    King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

    Here: 'Sixty': roughly 27–30 m (90–100 ft). Sixty was the base number of Babylonian counting, so it was a natural round figure for a Babylonian monument.

  2. Daniel 5:31 שִׁתִּ֥ין sixty

    and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.

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