tesha · nine

What it means

tesha (תֵּשַׁע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “nine”.

Also "ninth".

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 nine, which serves to count days, years and amounts.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Nine. With tens and hundreds it forms nineteen, twenty-nine, nine hundred and other numbers; in dates, the ninth day of the month.

• The ages of Genesis 5: nine hundred years Genesis 5:5Genesis 9:29Genesis 5:27
• Abram, ninety-nine years old Genesis 17:1Genesis 17:24
• Dates: the ninth of the month Leviticus 23:322 Kings 25:3
• The nine tribes and a half Joshua 13:7Numbers 34:13
• Lists of the return Ezra 2:36Ezra 2:42

Historical and cultural background

On the ninth of the seventh month, in the evening, the Sabbath of the day of expiation began, “from evening to evening” (Leviticus 23:32). On the ninth of the month, with the famine in the city, Jerusalem was breached (2 Kings 25:3-4).

How we translate it

Always as a number: “nine” 47 times (also within “nine hundred”, “twenty-nine”, “ninety-nine”), “nineteen” 5, “ninth” 4 in dates, and “nineteenth” in two lists of divisions. The numbers are written out in words, as in the Hebrew.

How it is translated

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

• nine ×47
• nineteen ×5
• ninth ×4
• nineteenth ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×13
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×4
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×7
• Judges×2
• 2 Samuel×2
• 2 Kings×8
• 1 Chronicles×4
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Ezra×4
• Nehemiah×4
• Jeremiah×3

• Genesis 5:5

  And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

• Genesis 5:8

  And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years and he died.

• Genesis 5:11

  And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years and he died.

• Genesis 5:14

  And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years and he died.

• Genesis 5:20

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

• Genesis 5:27

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

• Genesis 9:29

  And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

• Genesis 11:19

  After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:24

  Nahor lived twenty-nine years and fathered Terah.

• Genesis 11:25

  After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 17:1

  When Abram was ninety-nine years old, YHWH appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am El Shaddai; walk before me and be blameless.

• Genesis 17:24

  Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

• Exodus 38:24

  All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary, the gold of the wave offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.

• Leviticus 23:32

  It is a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening to evening, you shall cease in your Sabbath.”

• Leviticus 25:8

  And you shall count for yourself seven Sabbaths of years, seven years seven times, and the days of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty- nine years.

• Numbers 1:23

  those of them counted from the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

• Numbers 2:13

  and his army, those of them counted, are fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

• Numbers 29:26

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

• Numbers 34:13

  Moses commanded the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the land that you shall take as inheritance by lot, which YHWH has commanded to give to the nine tribes and the half tribe.

• Deuteronomy 3:11

  (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Look, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length and four cubits its width, by the cubit of a man.)

• Joshua 13:7

  And now divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh.”

• Joshua 14:2

  by lot was their inheritance, just as YHWH had commanded through Moses, for the nine tribes and the half tribe.

• Joshua 15:32

  Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon: twenty-nine cities in all, with their villages.

• Joshua 15:44

  Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages.

• Joshua 15:54

  Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is Hebron), and Zior: nine cities with their villages.

• Joshua 19:38

  Iron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh: nineteen cities with their villages.

• Joshua 21:16

  and Ain with its pasturelands, and Juttah with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands —nine cities from these two tribes.

• Judges 4:3

  The sons of Israel cried out to YHWH, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had oppressed the sons of Israel with force twenty years.

• Judges 4:13

  Sisera summoned all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the brook Kishon.

• 2 Samuel 2:30

  And Joab returned from following Abner and gathered all the people; and of the servants of David nineteen men were missing, and Asahel.

• 2 Samuel 24:8

  They went through all the land and came at the end of nine months and twenty days to Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 14:2

  He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 15:13

  Shallum son of Jabesh became king in year thirty-nine of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned a full month in Samaria.

• 2 Kings 15:17

  In year thirty-nine of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel and reigned ten years in Samaria.

• 2 Kings 17:1

  In year twelve of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king in Samaria over Israel and reigned nine years.

• 2 Kings 18:2

  He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Abi daughter of Zechariah.

• 2 Kings 18:10

  They captured it at the end of three years; in year six of Hezekiah, that is year nine of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was captured.

• 2 Kings 25:3

  On the ninth of the month the famine grew severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

• 2 Kings 25:8

  In the fifth month, on the seventh of the month —that was year nineteen of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon— Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

• 1 Chronicles 3:8

  Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.

And 18 more times.