Quick Definition
Sheminith
Biblical Persons & Places
Strong's Definition
probably an eight-stringed lyre
Derivation: feminine of H8066 (שְׁמִינִי);
KJV Usage: Sheminith.
TWOT Reference: 2411c
Outline of Biblical Usage
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
שְׁמִינִית (she.mi.nit) — Sheminith.
Sheminith perhaps an eight-stringed musical instrument perhaps a musical notation, i.e. an octave
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
adj · שְׁמֹנֶה
Quantity | Frequency
eighth = state in which a countable entity is the eighth in a range
EXO 22:29 · LEV 9:1 · LEV 12:3 · LEV 14:10 · LEV 14:23 · LEV 15:14 · LEV 15:29 · LEV 22:27 · LEV 23:36 · LEV 23:39 · LEV 25:22 · NUM 6:10 · NUM 7:54 · NUM 29:35 · 1KI 6:38 · 1KI 8:66 · 1KI 12:32 · 1KI 12:33 · 1CH 12:13 · 1CH 24:10 · 1CH 25:15 · 1CH 26:5 · 1CH 27:11 · 1CH 27:11 · 2CH 7:9 · NEH 8:18 · EZK 43:27 · ZEC 1:1
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
שְׁמִינִי, שְׁמִינִית 31 adj. num. eighth base
