shemone · eight

What it means

shemone (שְׁמֹנֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “eight”.

Also "eighth".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A quantity of eight.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Eight, the number; it is part of eighteen, twenty-eight and eight hundred. From the same root is שְׁמִינִי, “eighth”.

• Circumcision “at the age of eight days” Genesis 17:12Genesis 21:4
• Josiah, king at eight years old 2 Kings 22:1
• Eighteen: Abram's men, the years of servitude Genesis 14:14Judges 3:14
• Eight hundred in the ages of Genesis 5 Genesis 5:4

Historical and cultural background

The law of circumcision says: “At the age of eight days every male among you shall be circumcised” (Genesis 17:12), and so Abraham did with Isaac (Genesis 21:4).

How we translate it

“Eight” 78 times, “eighteen” 23, “eighteenth” 6, “eighth” 2. The number is translated according to the compound number it is part of.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• eight ×78
• eighteen ×23
• eighteenth ×6
• eighth ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×11
• Exodus×4
• Numbers×6
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×1
• Judges×6
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Kings×10
• 1 Chronicles×13
• 2 Chronicles×13
• Ezra×7
• Nehemiah×15
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×6
• Micah×1

• Genesis 5:4

  And the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were eight hundred years; and he fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:7

  And Seth lived after he fathered Enosh eight hundred and seven years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:10

  And Enosh lived after he fathered Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:13

  And Kenan lived after he fathered Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:16

  And Mahalalel lived after he fathered Jared eight hundred and thirty years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:17

  And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years and he died.

• Genesis 5:19

  And Jared lived after he fathered Enoch eight hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 14:14

  When Abram heard that his brother had been taken captive, he called out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

• Genesis 17:12

  At the age of eight days every male among you shall be circumcised throughout your generations, the one born in the house and the one bought with silver from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.

• Genesis 21:4

  Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as Elohim had commanded him.

• Genesis 22:23

  Bethuel fathered Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

• Exodus 26:2

  The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; one measure for all the curtains.

• Exodus 26:25

  So there shall be eight boards, with their bases of silver, sixteen bases, two bases under one board and two bases under another board.

• Exodus 36:9

  The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width four cubits for each curtain; one measure for all the curtains.

• Exodus 36:30

  And there were eight boards and their bases of silver, sixteen bases, two bases, two bases under each board.

• Numbers 2:24

  All those counted of the camp of Ephraim are one hundred eight thousand one hundred, by their armies. They shall set out third.

• Numbers 3:28

  According to the number of every male from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the charge of the Holy Place.

• Numbers 4:48

  those of them counted were eight thousand five hundred eighty.

• Numbers 7:8

  and four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

• Numbers 29:29

  And on the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs a year old, without defect;

• Numbers 35:7

  All the cities that you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, them and their pasturelands.

• Deuteronomy 2:14

  The days that we traveled from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Wadi Zered were thirty-eight years, until the whole generation, the men of war, had come to an end from the midst of the camp, as YHWH had sworn to them.

• Joshua 21:41

  All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasturelands.

• Judges 3:8

  The anger of YHWH burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim; and the sons of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

• Judges 3:14

  The sons of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.

• Judges 10:8

  They shattered and crushed the sons of Israel that year; eighteen years they did so to all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan, in the land of the Amorite, which is in Gilead.

• Judges 12:14

  He had forty sons and thirty sons of his sons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He judged Israel eight years.

• Judges 20:25

  And Benjamin went out to meet them from Gibeah on the second day and brought down among the sons of Israel another eighteen thousand men to the ground; all these were men who drew the sword.

• Judges 20:44

  And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.

• 1 Samuel 4:15

  Now Eli was ninety -eight years old, and his eyes were fixed, and he could not see.

• 1 Samuel 17:12

  Now David was the son of that Ephrathite man from Bethlehem of Judah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons; and the man in the days of Saul was old, advanced in years among men.

• 2 Samuel 8:13

  David made a name for himself when he returned from striking Aram in the Valley of Salt: eighteen thousand.

• 2 Samuel 23:8

  These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth, a Tahchemonite, head of the captains; he was Adino the Eznite; he was against eight hundred slain at one time.

• 2 Samuel 24:9

  Joab gave the number of the census of the people to the king: Israel was eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah five hundred thousand men.

• 1 Kings 7:10

  And the foundation was of costly stones, great stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.

• 1 Kings 7:15

  And he formed the two pillars of bronze: eighteen cubits was the height of the one pillar, and a thread of twelve cubits went around the second pillar.

• 1 Kings 15:1

  In year eighteen of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.

• 1 Kings 16:29

  Ahab son of Omri began to reign over Israel in year thirty and eight of Asa king of Judah; and Ahab son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.

• 2 Kings 3:1

  Joram son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in year eighteen of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned twelve years.

• 2 Kings 8:17

  He was thirty two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

And 69 more times.