שִׁלֵּשׁ
shillêsh · H8029 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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third generation descendants
Descendant belonging to the third generation
ExamplesGenesis 50:23 Joseph saw the third generation of Ephraim’s sons; also the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.
Exodus 20:5 “You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, inflicting the punishment of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Exodus 34:7 who keeps faithfulness for thousands, who forgives wrongdoing, violation of His Law, and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, inflicting the punishment of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 4
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בֵּןson 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
- τρίτος trítos · G5154 · third, third part
- τρίτος is the standard Greek ordinal numeral 'third' that directly translates Hebrew שִׁלֵּשׁ in its ordinal sense (third generation, third rank); both share the core ordinal concept 'third' across their respective languages.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Relatives001001003012
- This word denotes a third generation of descendants, as in Genesis 50:23's report that Joseph lived to see the third generation of Ephraim's sons, and Exodus 20:5's warning of guilt visited on the third and fourth generations of those who reject the LORD.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8029. shillesh II. [שִׁלֵּשׁ] adjective pertaining to the third; — only masculine plural…
II. [שִׁלֵּשׁ] adjective pertaining to the third; — only masculine plural as substantive שִׁלֵּשִׁים those of third Generation (grandsons); שׁ ׳בְּנֵי Gen 50:23 (E) sons of those of third Generation, i.e. great-grandsons (see KöSK 1898, 533 ff.); עַלשֿׁ ׳עַלבָּֿנִים וְעַלרִֿבֵּעִים Exo 20:5 (E; see [ רִבֵּעַ]} = Deu 5:9; Num 14:18, compare Exo 34:7 (both J).
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.
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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