שָׁלוֹשׁ
shâlôwsh · H7969 · Hebrew · 431 occurrences
Meanings
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three
State in which a countable entity is three in number
ExamplesGenesis 5:22 Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he fathered Methuselah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
Genesis 6:10 And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:15 “This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
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thirty
State in which a countable entity is thirty in number
ExamplesGenesis 6:15 “This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
1 Samuel 11:8 He counted them in Bezek; and the sons of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah, thirty thousand.
2 Samuel 23:13 Then three of the thirty chief men went down and came to David at harvest time to the cave of Adullam, while the army of the Philistines was camping in the Valley of Rephaim.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פַּרbull 1
What it doesIt is the subject
10 occurrences in 3 groups
- פָּנָהto turn, to face 8
- בָּקַעto split, to break open 1
- יָלַדto bear 1
What is done to itIt is the object
10 occurrences in 7 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 4
- כּוּלto provide for, to contain 1
- נָטָהto stretch out, to incline 1
- נָטַלto lift up 1
- נָכָהto strike, to strike down 1
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
What it is said to bePredicate
6 occurrences in 2 groups
- פֹּהhere, on this side 4
- בֵּןson 2
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
29 occurrences in 12 groups
- בֵּןson 14
- אֶדֶןbase 4
- עַמּוּדpillar 4
- Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
10 occurrences in 6 groups
- אֵלto, toward 4
- עַדto, as far as, until 4
- מִןfrom 3
- בin/on/with 2
- עַלon, upon, over, against 1
- תַּחַתunder, below, instead of 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- τρεῖς treîs · G5140 · three
- Greek τρεῖς is the direct cardinal number translation equivalent of Hebrew שָׁלוֹשׁ ('three'), systematically used across the LXX to render both the independent numeral and its compounds (thirteen, thirty, etc.) with high alignment consistency.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Quantity002001001046
- The numeral "three," directly shown throughout the genealogies and flood narrative — Enoch's three hundred years (Genesis 5:22), Noah's three sons (Genesis 6:10), the ark's dimensions (Genesis 6:15), and the three wives who entered the ark (Genesis 7:13).
- Frequency002001003009
- This domain reflects the "thrice/often-times" idiomatic extension named in the gloss, not directly shown by this entry's own five sampled citations, which all use the numeral in ordinary counting rather than repetition.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7969. shalosh שְׁלשָׁה שָׁלוֺשׁ, שָׁלשׁ,430 noun masculine and feminine a three, triad…
שְׁלשָׁה שָׁלוֺשׁ, שָׁלשׁ,430
noun masculine and feminine a three, triad (Late Hebrew id.; שלש SI2; שלשן30MI2; Phoenician שלש; Assyrian šalaštu, šalatu; Sabean שלתֿ HomChr 47, 124, but also תֿלתֿ, etc., Id.47, A. u. A. ii. 175 SabDenkmNo. 31, 8; Arabic , ; Ethiopic Aramaic תְּלָתָא, ; Nabataean תלת Lzb377; Palmyrene תלת (in מאה תלת) ReckendZMg xiii (1888), 408; see also Köii. 1. 208); — masculine וֺשׁ שָׁלשׁ- rare, chiefly late), with
noun feminine Amo 4:8 90t., also construct שְׁלשׁ Gen 18:6 65t. (but Gen 38:24 read perhaps שְׁלשֶׁת Samaritan, compare Di and others), שְׁלָשֿׁ Exo 21:11; feminine שְׁלשָׁה (וֺשָׁה- rare, chiefly late), with
noun masculine Gen 6:10 149t., also construct שְׁלשֶׁת Amo 4:4 92t. (3 1013are additional; on rare exceptions to rule of Gender compare Ges§ 97c), suffix שְׁלָשְׁתְּכֶם Num 12:4, שְׁלָשְׁתָּם Num 12:4; Eze 40:10; Eze 41:16; — three (Hexateuch chiefly P):
1 no other number:
a. before plural noun, שָׁלשׁ51t., e.g. ׳שׁ אַמוֺת Exo 27:1 +, ׳שׁ בָּאַמָּה 1Ki 7:27, שְׁלשָׁה90t., e.g. Gen 18:2 + (so always שְׁלשֶׁת שְׁלשׁ,; read מִשְׁלשֶׁת Gen 38:24 Sam Di; = ׳מִשְּׁ, from מִןֿ); after noun (late: on 1Sa 1:24 see [שִׁלֵּשׁ) 1Ch 25:5 1Ch 25:17t.; noun omitted 1Sa 17:4; 2Sa 24:12 42t.
b. = ordinal ׳לִשׁ יָמִים Exo 19:5 on third day; הַיָּמִים שׁ ׳הַיּוֺם 1Sa 9:20, הַשּׁ ׳הַיּוֺם 1Sa 30:13, both = three days ago; especially שׁ ׳בִּשְׁנַת לְ 1Ki 15:28 1Ki 15:7t. (Ges§ 134o).
2 13, with
noun feminine: עֶשְׂרֵהשָׁנַה שְׁלשׁ Gen 17:25; 1Ki 7:1 +? Gen 14:4 ( שְׁלשֿׁ), Jer 1:2; Jer 25:3; before ערים Jos 21:19; after, Jos 19:16 Jos 19:3t., before עִיר Jos 21:33; 1Ch 6:43, אַמּוֺת Eze 40:11; with
noun masculine עָשָׂר שְׁלשָׁה before מָּרִים Num 29:14; after, Num 29:13; ordinal before יוֺם Est 3:12; Est 9:1; after, Est 9:17; יוֺם omitted Est 3:13; Est 8:12; Est 9:18; גוֺרָל omitted 1Ch 24:13; 1Ch 25:20; 1Ch 26:11.
3300= מֵאוֺת שְׁלשׁ Gen 5:22 59t. (1Ch 11:11 perhaps intentional change [HPSSm] from שְׁמֹנֶה || 2Sa 23:8 which certainly original, Vrss Th We Dr and modern); 3000 = אֲלָפִים שְׁלשֶׁת Exo 32:28 Exo 32:28t.
4 c. tens, ׳שׁ following Num 1:43 Num 1:11t., precedes Lev 12:4 17t., + (as ordinal) 3 20 Jer 52:30 Jer 52:3t.; 20 32Ki Jer 12:7 Jer 12:2t.
5 as round, or conventional, number: 2 (or) 3, Amo 4:8; Deu 17:6; Jos 7:3; 2Ki 9:32; Isa 17:6; Isa 17:3(and) 4, Pro 30:15, Pro 30:18, Pro 30:21, Pro 30:29; three days' journey Exo 3:18; Exo 5:3; Exo 8:23, etc.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
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