shemini · eighth

What it means

shemini (שְׁמִינִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “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. The one that comes after the seventh; the eighth day or month.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×10
• Numbers×3
• 1 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×6
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 22:30

  So you shall do with your oxen and with your flock: seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

• Leviticus 9:1

  On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.

• Leviticus 12:3

  And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

• Leviticus 14:10

  On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, and one ewe lamb a year old without defect, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering mixed with oil, and one log of oil.

• Leviticus 14:23

  On the eighth day for his purification he shall bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before YHWH.

• Leviticus 15:14

  And on the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and come before YHWH to the entrance of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest.

• Leviticus 15:29

  And on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Leviticus 22:27

  “When a calf or a lamb or a kid is born, it shall be seven days under its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be accepted as a fire offering to YHWH.

• Leviticus 23:36

  Seven days you shall present a fire offering to YHWH. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and present a fire offering to YHWH; it is a solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work at all.

• Leviticus 23:39

  But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of YHWH seven days; on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.

• Leviticus 25:22

  And you shall sow in the eighth year and eat from the old produce; until the ninth year, until its produce comes in, you shall eat the old.

• Numbers 6:10

  And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Numbers 7:54

  On the eighth day, the chief of the sons of Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur:

• Numbers 29:35

  On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly; you shall not do any laborious work.

• 1 Kings 6:38

  and in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, that is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts and according to all its rules. And he built it in seven years.

• 1 Kings 8:66

  On the eighth day he dismissed the people; and they blessed the king and went to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for all the good that YHWH had done for David his servant and for Israel his people.

• 1 Kings 12:32

  Jeroboam held a festival in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival that was in Judah, and he went up to the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made; and he stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

• 1 Kings 12:33

  He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his heart; and he held a festival for the sons of Israel, and went up to the altar to offer up in smoke.

• 1 Chronicles 12:12

  Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,

• 1 Chronicles 24:10

  for Hakkoz the seventh, for Abijah the eighth,

• 1 Chronicles 25:15

  the eighth Jeshaiah: his sons and his brothers, twelve;

• 1 Chronicles 26:5

  Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for Elohim had blessed him.

• 1 Chronicles 27:11

  The eighth, for the eighth month, was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites; and in his division, twenty-four thousand.

• 2 Chronicles 7:9

  On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had held the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

• Nehemiah 8:18

  And he read in the book of the law of Elohim day after day, from the first day until the last day. And they celebrated the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule.

• Ezekiel 43:27

  And when they have completed the days, it shall be that on the eighth day and onward, the priests shall offer on the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, declares Adonai YHWH.”

• Zechariah 1:1

  In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of YHWH came to Zechariah son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,

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