Word

שְׁלִישִׁי

shᵉlîyshîy · H7992 · Hebrew · 105 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Third, a state in which a countable entity is the third in a range

    Examples

    Genesis 1:13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

    Genesis 2:14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

    Genesis 6:16 “You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and put the door of the ark on the side; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.

  2. A third part, a state in which an entity is one out of three equal parts

    Examples

    Numbers 15:6 ‘Or for a ram you shall prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil;

    Numbers 15:7 and for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine as a soothing aroma to the LORD.

    Numbers 28:14 ‘Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull and a third of a hin for the ram and a fourth of a hin for a lamb; this is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.

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

9 occurrences in 8 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

7 occurrences in 6 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

13 occurrences in 10 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

6 occurrences in 6 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
τρίτος trítos · G5154 · third, third part
Hebrew שְׁלִישִׁי (shᵉlîyshîy, H7992) and Greek τρίτος (trítos, G5154) are direct cross-linguistic equivalents both denoting ordinal 'third' position in sequence, rank, or time, with overlapping substantival uses (third part/portion) and temporal applications (third time/day/year).
Semantic domains 2 entries
Quantity002001001046
The ordinal "third," directly shown in the third day of creation (Genesis 1:13), the third river of Eden (Genesis 2:14), the ark's "third" deck (Genesis 6:16), and the third day of Abraham's journey to Moriah (Genesis 22:4) and of Jacob's flight from Laban (Genesis 31:22).
Frequency002001003009
This domain reflects the "third time" sense named in the gloss, not directly shown by this entry's own five sampled citations, which all use the ordinal for a day, river, or deck rather than a repeated occurrence.
Word family 8 words
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7992. shelishi שְׁלִישִׁי masculine שְׁלִישִׁית feminine adjective ordinal number108…
H7992. shelishi
שְׁלִישִׁי masculine שְׁלִישִׁית
feminine adjective ordinal number108 third; — שְׁלִישִׁי יוֺם Gen 1:13 Gen 1:31t., etc. (64 t., rarely שְׁלִשִׁי); plural שְׁלִשִׁים (third 50, set of messengers, etc.) 1Sa 19:21; 2Ki 1:13 2Ki 1:4t.; הַשְּׁלִישִׁית בַּשָּׁנָה 1Ki 18:1 1Ki 18:4t., etc. (33 t.; sometimes שְׁלִשִׁת שְׁלִשִׁית,, etc.); = third part, a third 2Sa 18:2 (3 t. in verse) + 13 t., + (construct) Num 15:6 Num 15:4t., + שְׁלִשִׁתֵיךְ (Ges§ 91l) Eze 5:12 third part of thee; = third time 1Sa 3:8; also שְׁלִישִׁיָּה Isa 19:24 third (on par with other two); בַּשְּׁלִישִׁים Eze 42:3 in the thirds, i.e. third story; — שׁ ׳עֶגְלַת Eze 15:5; Jer 48:34, see ׳ע p. 722. — שְׁלִישִׁ֫תָה Eze 21:19 is corrupt and doubtful; Krae proposes וְשֻׁלְּשָׁה the sword shall be doubled and trebled; other conjectures in Co Toy. 1Sa 20:5 strike out ᵐ5 ׳הַשּׁ We Dr and others, so 1Sa 20:12. 2Sa 23:18 read ᵑ6 הַשְּׁלשִׁם We Dr and others

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

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

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