#267 Six Is a Beautiful Number

This week we celebrate our podcast's sixth anniversary. Can you believe it? Six years, שש שנים. It's a good excuse to talk about שש, six, and its family of Hebrew words. Listen to the All-Hebrew Version of this Episode New Words and Expressions: Kvish shesh - Highway six - כביש שש Kvish hotse Israel - Cross Israel highway - כביש חוצה ישראל Kav shesh - Bus no. 6 - קו שש Hayinu shisha - We were six (pl. m.) - היינו שישה Shisha chaverim - Six friends (m.) - שישה חברים Shisha yeladim - Six kids (m.) - שישה ילדים Shisha banim - Six boys - שישה בנים Hayinu shesh - We were six (pl. f.) - היינו שש Shesh chaverot - Six friends (pl. f.) - שש חברות Shesh nashim - Six women - שש נשים Six girls - Shesh banot - שש בנות Adom, aduma, adumim - Red (m., f., pl.) - אדום, אדומה, אדומים Ez/Izim - Goat/goats - עז, עיזים The six friends - Sheshet ha-chaverim - ששת החברים Milchemet sheshet hayamim - The 6 Day War - מלחמת ששת הימים Shesh ha-chaverot - The six friends (f.) - שש החברות Shesh ha-nashim - The six women - שש הנשים Shesh ha-banot - The six girls - שש הבנות Shesh va-hetsi ba-boker - 6.30am - שש וחצי בבוקר Shesh ba-erev - 6pm - שש בערב Re'iya shesh-shesh - 6 over 6 vision (US: 20 20) - ראייה שש-שש Shnot ha-shishim - The sixties - שנות השישים Shnot ha-shloshim - The thirties - שנות השלושים Shnot ha-shmonim - The eighties - שנות השמונים 600 - Shesh me'ot - שש מאות 6,000 - Sheshet alafim - ששת אלפים 60,000 - Shishim elef - שישים אלף 600,000 - Shesh me'ot elef - שש מאות אלף 6,000,000 - Shisha milion - שישה מיליון 6,000,000,000 - Shisha miliard - שישה מיליארד Playlist and Clips: Kvish 6 Ha-tikva 6 - Ha-ivrit Ha-chadasha (lyrics) Shlomo Artzi - Shisha (lyrics) Milchemet Sheshet Ha-yamim - 6 Day War Yehuda Poliker - Boker Yom Rishon (lyrics) Shesh-shesh Shlomo Artzi - Lev Shavur Li-resisim (lyrics)

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