tishim · ninety

What it means

tishim (תִּשְׁעִים) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ninety”.

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 ninety, which serves to count years, persons and animals.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×4
• Nehemiah×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×3
• Daniel×1

• Genesis 5:9

  And Enosh lived ninety years and fathered Kenan.

• Genesis 5:17

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

• Genesis 5:30

  And Lamech lived after he fathered Noah five hundred and ninety-five 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 17:17

  Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a son be born to one who is a hundred years old? And Sarah, will she, at ninety years, give birth?”

• Genesis 17:24

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

• 1 Samuel 4:15

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

• 1 Chronicles 9:6

  And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brothers, six hundred and ninety.

• Ezra 2:16

  the sons of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight;

• Ezra 2:20

  the sons of Gibbar, ninety-five;

• Ezra 2:58

  All the Nethinim and the sons of the servants of Solomon, three hundred ninety-two.

• Ezra 8:35

  Those who had come from the captivity, the sons of the exile, offered burnt offerings to the Elohim of Israel: twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, twelve male goats as a sin offering; all was a burnt offering to YHWH.

• Nehemiah 7:21

  the sons of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight;

• Nehemiah 7:25

  the sons of Gibeon, ninety-five;

• Nehemiah 7:60

  All the Nethinim and the sons of the servants of Solomon, three hundred ninety-two.

• Jeremiah 52:23

  And there were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred on the network all around.

• Ezekiel 4:5

  And I have given you the years of their iniquity as a number of days, three hundred and ninety days; and you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

• Ezekiel 4:9

  And you, take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make them into bread for yourself; for the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you will eat it.

• Ezekiel 41:12

  And the building that was in front of the separate area, on the side toward the sea, seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building five cubits wide all around, and its length ninety cubits.

• Daniel 12:11

  And from the time that the continual sacrifice is taken away and that the detestable thing that makes desolate is set up, there will be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.