'Eight' in the Bible
The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers houses.
And of the Danites that could set the battle in array, twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.
and Obed-edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;
And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and thus were they divided: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers houses, eight.
And the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in singing unto Jehovah, even all that were skilful, was two hundred fourscore and eight.