Word study
Ninth
2 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “ninth”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “ninth” or one of its forms.
Compare the Hebrew words side by side
Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- תְּשִׁיעִי teshîîninthtranslated this way 18 times of its 18 uses · Strong’s H8671Number · Translated: ninth 16, Since it was the ninth 1, day of the ninth 1Full study and all 17 verses →
Leviticus 25:22 While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.
Numbers 7:60 On the ninth day Abidan son of Gideoni, the leader of the Benjamites, drew near.
- תֵּשַׁע têshaa nine, nonadtranslated this way 5 times of its 44 uses · Strong’s H8672Number · Translated: nine 13, ninth 5, nineteenth 4, 29 3Full study and all 44 verses →
Leviticus 23:32 It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”
2 Kings 18:10 And at the end of three years, the Assyrians captured it. So Samaria was captured in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel.
Greek words (New Testament)
- ἔννατος énnatosninthtranslated this way 10 times of its 10 uses · Strong’s G1766Adjective · Translated: ninth 10Full study and all 10 verses →
Matthew 20:5 So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.
Mark 15:33 From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
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- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
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Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.