shishim · sixty

What it means

shishim (שִׁשִּׁים) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sixty”.

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. The number sixty.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Sixty. It is the plural of שֵׁשׁ (‘six’, H8337), as Hebrew forms the tens.

• Ages: “Isaac was sixty years old” Genesis 25:26Leviticus 27:3
• Periods set by the law: sixty-six days Leviticus 12:5
• Cities and warriors Deuteronomy 3:4Song of Songs 3:7
• Solomon’s gold 1 Kings 10:14
• Daniel’s sixty-two weeks Daniel 9:25Daniel 9:26

Historical and cultural background

The law of valuations set the price of a male “from twenty years old up to sixty years old” at fifty shekels of silver (Leviticus 27:3), and a lower one for those from sixty upward (27:7).

How we translate it

Always “sixty” (59 times), alone or in compound numbers, keeping the Hebrew order where it helps (“six hundred sixty and six talents”, 1 Kings 10:14; “sixty and two weeks”, Daniel 9:25).

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×8
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×11
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×6
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Ezra×5
• Nehemiah×6
• Song of Songs×2
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Daniel×2

• Genesis 5:15

  And Mahalalel lived sixty-five years and fathered Jared.

• Genesis 5:18

  And Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years and fathered Enoch.

• Genesis 5:20

  And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years and he died.

• Genesis 5:21

  And Enoch lived sixty-five years and fathered Methuselah.

• Genesis 5:23

  And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

• Genesis 5:27

  And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years and he died.

• Genesis 25:26

  After that his brother came out, with his hand holding on to the heel of Esau, and he called his name Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

• Genesis 46:26

  All the persons who came with Jacob to Egypt, who came out of his thigh, not counting the wives of Jacob’s sons, all the persons were sixty-six.

• Leviticus 12:5

  But if she gives birth to a female, she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall remain sixty days and six days in the blood of purification.

• Leviticus 27:3

  the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be a valuation of fifty shekels of silver, by the shekel of the sanctuary.

• Leviticus 27:7

  And if from sixty years old and upward, if a male, the valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

• Numbers 1:39

  those of them counted from the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

• Numbers 2:26

  and his army, those of them counted, are sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

• Numbers 3:50

  From the firstborn of the sons of Israel he took the silver, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels by the shekel of the sanctuary.

• Numbers 7:88

  and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace, twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, sixty male lambs a year old. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.

• Numbers 26:25

  These are the families of Issachar, according to those of them counted: sixty-four thousand three hundred.

• Numbers 26:27

  These are the families of the Zebulunites, according to those of them counted: sixty thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 26:43

  All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those of them counted: sixty-four thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 31:34

  sixty-one thousand donkeys,

• Numbers 31:39

  and the donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, and their tribute for YHWH was sixty-one;

• Deuteronomy 3:4

  We captured all his cities at that time; there was not a town that we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

• Joshua 13:30

  And their territory was from Mahanaim: all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all Havvoth-jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;

• 2 Samuel 2:31

  But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin and of the men of Abner three hundred and sixty men; they died.

• 1 Kings 4:13

  Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead; his were Havvoth-jair of Jair son of Manasseh, which is in Gilead; his was the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with wall and bars of bronze;

• 1 Kings 4:22

  And the food of Solomon for one day was thirty kors of fine flour and sixty kors of meal,

• 1 Kings 6:2

  And the house that King Solomon built for YHWH — sixty cubits was its length, and twenty its width, and thirty cubits its height.

• 1 Kings 10:14

  And the weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty and six talents of gold,

• 2 Kings 25:19

  and from the city he took an official who was in charge of the men of war, and five men of those who saw the face of the king, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the chief of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.

• 1 Chronicles 2:21

  And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead; and he took her when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Segub.

• 1 Chronicles 2:23

  But Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-jair from them, Kenath and its towns, sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.

• 1 Chronicles 5:18

  The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of the valiant, men who carried shield and sword, who drew the bow, and trained for war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, who went out to the army.

• 1 Chronicles 9:13

  and their brothers, heads of their fathers’ houses, a thousand seven hundred and sixty, very able men for the work of the service of the house of Elohim.

• 1 Chronicles 16:38

  and Obed-edom and their brothers, sixty-eight; and Obed-edom son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, as gatekeepers;

• 1 Chronicles 26:8

  All these were of the sons of Obed-edom; they and their sons and their brothers, capable men with strength for the service: sixty-two of Obed-edom.

• 2 Chronicles 3:3

  These are the measures with which Solomon laid the foundations for building the house of Elohim: the length, in cubits of the old measure, was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

• 2 Chronicles 9:13

  The weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,

• 2 Chronicles 11:21

  Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and his concubines, for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

• 2 Chronicles 12:3

  with a thousand two hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen; and there was no number to the people who came with him from Egypt: Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.

• Ezra 2:9

  the sons of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty;

• Ezra 2:13

  the sons of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-six;

And 19 more times.