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2 Kings 25:3

“And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

תֵּשַׁעtêshaʻ · tay'-shah
H8672 · Hebrew

Definition: nine or (ordinal) ninth
Derivation: or (masculine) תִּשְׁעָה; perhaps from H8159 (שָׁעָה) through the idea of a turn to the next or full number ten;
KJV renderings: nine ([phrase] -teen, [phrase] -teenth, -th).
Grammar: בְּ — preposition
תִשְׁעָ֣ה — cardinal number, masculine, singular, absolute
Code HR/Acmsa
Usage: Occurs 58 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 5:5 Genesis 5:8 Genesis 5:11 Genesis 5:14 Genesis 5:20

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read תֵּשַׁע here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.