'Nine' in the Bible

Therefore, divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”

Their inheritance was by lot as the Lord commanded through Moses for the nine and a half tribes,

Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah—nine cities, with their villages;

Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior—nine cities, with their villages;

Ain with its pasturelands, Juttah with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands—nine cities from these two tribes.