Word

שְׁלוֹשִׁים

shᵉlôwshîym · H7970 · Hebrew · 172 occurrences

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Meanings

The cardinal number thirty, used for counting persons, objects, measurements, or units of time — including its combination with a units digit to express a compound cardinal number (e.g., "thirty-five"), as in stating an age or regnal year

Examples
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.
Exodus 36:15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the width of each curtain; the eleven curtains had the same measurements.
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.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מָצָאto find 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1
כָּתַבto write down, to write, to inscribe 1
מָצָאto find 1

What it is said to bePredicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

מִסְפָּרnumber 1
וֹhim 1
הֶםthem 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

23 occurrences in 11 groups

מִשְׁקָלweight 12
Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 3 groups

מִןfrom 5
עַלon, upon, over, against 2
בin/on/with 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בֵּןson 1
גִּבּוֹרmighty man, warrior 1

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

τριάκοντα triákonta · G5144 · thirty: Greek τριάκοντα is the direct numerical equivalent of Hebrew שְׁלוֹשִׁים, both denoting the cardinal number thirty and its ordinal sense thirtieth in their respective languages.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Quantity002001001046: The numeral "thirty," directly shown in the patriarchal ages recorded throughout Genesis 5 (Adam's 130 years, verse 3; Mahalalel's 830 years, verse 16) and the ark's dimensions (Genesis 6:15) and Arpachshad's thirty-five years before fathering Shelah (Genesis 11:12).
Frequency002001003009: This domain reflects a further numeral-idiom extension named in the gloss, not directly shown by this entry's own five sampled citations, which all use the number in ordinary counting of years or measurements.

Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

שָׁלוֹשׁ shâlôwsh · H7969 · three, thirty · 431×שְׁלוֹשִׁיםshᵉlôwshîym · H7970שְׁלִישִׁי shᵉlîyshîy · H7992 · third, a third (part) · 105×שָׁלִישׁ shâlîysh · H7991 · bowl, measure, sistrum · 19×תְּלָת tᵉlâth · H8532 · third, three · 11×תְּלַת tᵉlath · H8531 · third · 3×תְּלָתִין tᵉlâthîyn · H8533 · thirty · 2×תְּלִיתַי tᵉlîythay · H8523 · third · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7970. sheloshim שְׁלשִׁים (very seldom שְׁלוֺשִׁים שְׁלשִׁפ,):174 noun indeclinable…

H7970. sheloshim
שְׁלשִׁים (very seldom שְׁלוֺשִׁים שְׁלשִׁפ,):174
noun indeclinable thirty; —
1 before singular noun: אַמָּה Gen 6:15 Gen 6:3t., +, with בָּאַמָּה Exo 26:8 Exo 26:3t.; שָׁנָה 2Sa 5:4 2Sa 5:12t. (age of paternity, of Levitical or royal duty, etc.), אִישׁ Jdg 14:19 Jdg 14:3t., etc.; before plural noun בָּנִים Jdg 10:4; Jdg 12:9, אֲנְשִׁים Jer 38:10 (read here probably שְׁלשָׁהּ Ew Hi Gf and others), less common words Eze 40:17; Ezr 1:9-10, etc.; after plural noun Gen 32:16, ׳שׁ מְּעָמִים Eze 41:6; ׳שׁ אֶלֶף 1Ch 23:3 +, ׳שׁ אֲלָפִים Ezr 2:35; Neh 7:38; ׳שׁ following units Gen 11:12 Gen 11:14t., precedes 1Ki 22:42 1Ki 22:29t.; ׳שׁ following 100 (1000, etc.) Gen 5:5 Gen 5:15t., precedes Gen 5:3 Gen 5:21t.
2 as ordinal שׁ שְׁנַת (בִּ) לְ שָׁנָה לְ שָׁנְה ׳וְאַחַת 1Ki 16:23, compare 1Ki 16:29 1Ki 16:4t.; שָׁנְה omitted Neh 5:14 Neh 5:4t.; שְׁנַת omitted 2Ki 25:27 = Jer 52:31; ׳בִּשׁ שָׁנָךְ alone Eze 1:1. — 1Sa 13:5 read ᵐ5 שְׁלשֶׁתL We Dr and others; 2Sa 23:13 read שְׁלשָׁה Qr Vrss Th and modern; 1Ch 11:11 read ᵐ5 הַשְּׁלשָׁה הַשְּׁלשֶׁת,L Kit Benz and others (so || 2Sa 23:8 for הַשָּׁלִשִׁי).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Quantity0 occurrences

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.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0