Lexicon
שְׁמִינִי
she.mi.ni
H8066
H:A Hebrew

eighth

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she.mi.ni marks the position that follows seven, especially for days, months, years, and ordered assignments.

The term consistently marks the ordinal position following seven: most often in temporal expressions for a day, month, or year, and also in ordered allocations and named positions.

Senses in use

  1. The position following seven · dominant

    The ordinal adjective marks a time after seven in ritual and calendar settings: in Leviticus 23:36 the APB renders a holy assembly “On the eighth day,” and in 1 Kings 12:32 it renders a feast “in the eighth month.” It likewise marks an ordered place in allocations: in 1 Chronicles 24:10 the APB renders “the eighth to Abijah,” while Numbers 7:54 introduces an offering “On the eighth day.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the verses, the APB commonly makes the ordinal explicit in phrases such as “On the eighth day,” “the eighth month,” and “the eighth year,” and in ordered assignments such as “the eighth to Abijah.” These renderings reflect the clauses as a whole.

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Across Scripture