The number 60 in the Bible — Threshold · The Main Phase of Life
שִׁשִּׁים
Sixty stands at thresholds and in the strength that guards them: Isaac was sixty when the twins were born and the two-nations story crossed its threshold; sixty mighty men surrounded Solomon's bed against the terrors of the night — support at the doorway of the king's rest; the Mishnah's ladder of ages says 'at sixty, seniority.' Samekh the pillar upholds — the letter's own name means to support.
Where 60 shapes the story
Gen 25:26 — Isaac at sixty — Jacob and Esau born
Song 3:7-8 — Sixty mighty men around the bed of Solomon
Song 6:8 — Sixty queens
Associations
Entry into eldership (Avot 5:21)Guarded thresholdsSupport and upholding
Occurrences
Gen 25:26Lev 27:3Lev 27:7Num 7:88Num 26:27Deut 3:4Josh 13:302Sam 2:311Kgs 4:131Kgs 6:22Kgs 25:191Chr 2:211Chr 2:231Chr 5:181Chr 9:132Chr 3:32Chr 11:212Chr 12:3Ezra 2:9Ezra 2:64Ezra 6:3Ezra 8:10Ezra 8:13Neh 7:14Neh 7:66Song 3:7Song 6:8Jer 52:25Ezek 40:14Dan 3:1Matt 13:8Matt 13:23Mark 4:8Mark 4:20Luke 24:131Tim 5:9Rev 11:3Rev 12:6