שִׁתִּין
shitin · sixty
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H8361 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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shitin (שִׁתִּין) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “sixty”.
(Aramaic).
How to say it
shi·tin
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
- The number sixty, which measures the height of an image or the years of a king.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Ezra 6:3
In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king gave an order: Concerning the house of Elah in Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they sacrifice sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid; its height, sixty cubits; its width, sixty cubits;
- Daniel 3:1
King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, its height sixty cubits, its width six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
- Daniel 5:31
And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
And 1 more times.