τρίτος
third
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
6 verses where G5154 appears in the Dative case in the Book of Luke. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke
- Luke 9:22 τρίτῃ adj dat sg fem saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up."
- Luke 12:38 τρίτῃ adj dat sg fem They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.
- Luke 13:32 τρίτῃ adj dat sg fem He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission.
- Luke 18:33 τρίτῃ adj dat sg fem They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again."
- Luke 24:7 τρίτῃ adj dat sg fem saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?"
- Luke 24:46 τρίτῃ adj dat sg fem He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, τριτος (trítos) means “third.” The King James Version’s older “third part” has given way to “third” in modern versions, as the renderings breakdown shows. Spanning 47 verses in 8 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Revelation (32% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in Matthew 16:21. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5154 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 47
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 47 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #286
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 286 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 47 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 15 verses 32%
- Luke 10 verses 21%
- Matthew 7 verses 15%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 47 distinct verses.
- Gospels 23 verses · 49%
- Johannine 18 verses · 38%
- Revelation 15 verses · 32%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 14 verses · 30%
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 11%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Third 36×, Third part 14×, Third time 5×
- American Standard Version: Third 32×, Third part 11×, Third time 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Third 48×, Third time 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Third 48×, Third time 3×, Time 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5154 across 57 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5154 across 55 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5154 across 54 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5154 across 58 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- the third
Word origin
Derived from τρεις (treîs) (G5140) — three.
From G5140 ; third ; neuter (as noun) a third part or (as adverb) a (or the) third time thirdly : - third (-ly).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G5154 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| τρίτον tríton | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Revelation 4:7 | 24 |
| τρίτῃ trítē | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 16:21 | 13 |
| τρίτος trítos | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 22:26 | 7 |
| τρίτου trítou | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 26:44 | 3 |
| τρίτη trítē | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Mark 15:25 | 3 |
| τρίτην trítēn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 20:3 | 3 |
| τρίτης trítēs | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 27:64 | 2 |
| Τρίτον Tríton | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | 2 Corinthians 13:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5154, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- τριακοντα triákonta G5144 thirty
- τριακοσιοι triakósioi G5145 three hundred
- τριβολος tríbolos G5146 thistle
- τριετια trietía G5148 three years
- τριμηνον trímēnon G5150 three months
- τρις trís G5151 thrice
- τριστεγον trístegon G5152 third story
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word τριτος appears 143 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 133 verses in 22 books.
- 143
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 133
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 22 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 22 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:13 τρίτος
- Exodus 4:10 τρίτος
- Leviticus 7:17 τρίτος
- Numbers 2:24 τρίτος
- Deuteronomy 4:42 τρίτος
- Joshua 3:4 τρίτος
- Judges 16:15 τρίτος
- Ruth 2:11 τρίτος
- 1 Samuel 3:8 τρίτος
- 2 Samuel 1:2 τρίτος
- 1 Kings 3:18 τρίτος
- 2 Kings 1:13 τρίτος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5154) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 133. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:13 τρίτος There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
- Genesis 2:14 τρίτος The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
- Genesis 22:4 τρίτος On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.
- Genesis 31:2 τρίτος Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
- Genesis 31:5 τρίτος and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.
- Genesis 31:22 τρίτος Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
- Genesis 32:20 τρίτος You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."
- Genesis 34:25 τρίτος It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
- Genesis 40:20 τρίτος It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
- Genesis 42:18 τρίτος Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.
- Genesis 50:23 τρίτος Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees.
- Exodus 4:10 τρίτος Moses said to Yahweh, "Oh, Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."
- Exodus 5:7 τρίτος "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- Exodus 5:14 τρίτος The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"
- Exodus 19:1 τρίτος In the third month after the children of Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
- Exodus 19:11 τρίτος and be ready against the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
- Exodus 19:16 τρίτος It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
- Exodus 20:5 τρίτος you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
- Exodus 21:29 τρίτος But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
- Exodus 21:36 τρίτος Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
- Exodus 28:19 τρίτος and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
- Exodus 34:7 τρίτος keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
- Exodus 36:19 τρίτος He made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
- Leviticus 7:17 τρίτος but what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.
- Leviticus 7:18 τρίτος If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.
- Leviticus 19:6 τρίτος It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day: and if anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned with fire.
- Leviticus 19:7 τρίτος If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It will not be accepted;
- Numbers 2:24 τρίτος "All who were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.
- Numbers 7:24 τρίτος On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun
- Numbers 10:6 τρίτος When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
- Numbers 14:18 τρίτος Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.
- Numbers 15:6 τρίτος Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal-offering two tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil:
- Numbers 15:7 τρίτος and for the drink-offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Numbers 19:12 τρίτος the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn't purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
- Numbers 19:19 τρίτος and the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
- Numbers 22:28 τρίτος Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?
- Numbers 22:32 τρίτος The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why have you struck your donkey these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, because your way is perverse before me:
- Numbers 22:33 τρίτος and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain you, and saved her alive.
- Numbers 24:10 τρίτος Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.
- Numbers 28:14 τρίτος Their drink-offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
- Numbers 29:20 τρίτος On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
- Numbers 31:19 τρίτος Encamp you outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
- Deuteronomy 4:42 τρίτος that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
- Deuteronomy 5:9 τρίτος you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
- Deuteronomy 19:4 τρίτος This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past;
- Deuteronomy 19:6 τρίτος lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.
- Deuteronomy 23:9 τρίτος When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall keep you from every evil thing.
- Deuteronomy 26:12 τρίτος When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
- Joshua 3:4 τρίτος Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way heretofore.
- Joshua 4:18 τρίτος It happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh were come up out of the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5154) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.