'Eight' in the Bible
There were six thousand, eight hundred spearmen of the children of Judah, armed for war;
And of the children of Ephraim, twenty thousand, eight hundred great men of war, men of great name in their families.
And of the Danites, twenty-eight thousand, six hundred, expert in ordering the fight.
And Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, with their brothers, sixty-eight of them, to be door-keepers:
And the Levites, all those of thirty years old and over, were numbered; and the number of them, by heads, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
And there were more chiefs among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar; and this is how they were grouped: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, all heads of families; and of the sons of Ithamar, heads of families, there were eight.
And the number of them, with their brothers who were trained and expert in making melody to the Lord, was two hundred and eighty-eight.