| NASB © | Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Definition | Origin | | and the human | אָדָ֔ם | a·dam, | 120 | man, mankind | from an unused word |
| beings | וְנֶ֣פֶשׁ | ve·ne·fesh | 5315 | a soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion | from an unused word |
| were 16,000-- | שִׁשָּׁ֥ה | shi·shah | 8337a | six (a card. number) | from an unused word |
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KJV Lexicon
And sixteen
shesh (shaysh)
six (as an overplus (see 7797) beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. sixth -- six(-teen, -teenth), sixth.
`asar (aw-sawr')
ten (only in combination), i.e. -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth -- (eigh-, fif-, four-, nine-, seven-, six-, thir-)teen(-th), + eleven(-th), + sixscore thousand, + twelve(-th).
thousand
'eleph (eh'-lef)
hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand -- thousand.
persons
nephesh (neh'-fesh)
a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
'adam (aw-dawm')
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.) -- another, + hypocrite, + common sort, low, man (mean, of low degree), person. |
