שִׁתִּין shittîyn
Meaning
sixty
In the King James Version: threescore.
Derivation: (Aramaic) corresponding to H8346 (שִׁשִּׁים) (compare H8353 (שֵׁת));
Where it is used
- Ezra 6:3 In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,
- Daniel 3:1 King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
- Daniel 5:31 and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.