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Seventeenth [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The ordinal of seventeen; the seventh after the tenth.

2. On the seventeenth day of the second month- all the fountains of the great deep were broken up. Genesis 7:11 .

Seventeenth [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.

2. Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Seventeenth [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.

2. The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.

3. An interval of two octaves and a third.

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Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 8:4

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

1 Kings 22:51

Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.

In the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Ahaziah son of Ahab became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria two years.

2 Kings 16:1

In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah.

1 Chronicles 24:15

The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,

the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,

1 Chronicles 25:24

The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;

Judith 1:13

Then he marched in battle array with his power against king Arphaxad in the seventeenth year, and he prevailed in his battle: for he overthrew all the power of Arphaxad, and all his horsemen, and all his chariots,

1 Maccabees 16:14

Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and taking care for the good ordering of them; at which time he came down himself to Jericho with his sons, Mattathias and Judas, in the hundred threescore and seventeenth year, in the eleventh month, called Sabat: