שָׁלֹשׁ
three
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
30 verses where H7969 appears in the Absolute state in the Book of 1 Chronicles. 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 Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 2:3 שְׁלוֹשָׁה֙ adj Cardinal number ms The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua's daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh; and he killed him.
- 1 Chronicles 2:16 שְׁלֹשָֽׁה adj Cardinal number ms and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
- 1 Chronicles 2:22 וְ/שָׁלוֹשׁ֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 3:4 וְ/שָׁלוֹשׁ֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs six were born to him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months. In Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years;
- 1 Chronicles 3:23 שְׁלֹשָֽׁה adj Cardinal number ms The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
- 1 Chronicles 6:60 שְׁלֹשׁ adj Cardinal number fs and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its suburbs, and Allemeth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
- 1 Chronicles 6:62 שְׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
- 1 Chronicles 7:6 שְׁלֹשָֽׁה adj Cardinal number ms [The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
- 1 Chronicles 11:11 שְׁלֹשׁ adj Cardinal number fs This is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them at one time.
- 1 Chronicles 11:12 בִּ/שְׁלוֹשָׁ֥ה prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men.
- 1 Chronicles 11:15 שְֽׁלוֹשָׁה֩ adj Cardinal number ms Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
- 1 Chronicles 11:18 הַ/שְּׁלֹשָׁ֜ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms The three broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh,
- 1 Chronicles 11:20 הַ/שְּׁלוֹשָׁ֔ה שְׁלֹ֥שׁ בַּ/שְּׁלוֹשָֽׁה ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number fs prep det + Adjective Cardinal number ms Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
- 1 Chronicles 11:21 הַ/שְּׁלוֹשָׁ֤ה הַ/שְּׁלוֹשָׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain: however he didn't attain to the [first] three.
- 1 Chronicles 11:24 בִּ/שְׁלוֹשָׁ֥ה prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.
- 1 Chronicles 11:25 הַ/שְּׁלוֹשָׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to the [first] three: and David set him over his guard.
- 1 Chronicles 12:39 שְׁלוֹשָׁ֔ה adj Cardinal number ms They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had made preparation for them.
- 1 Chronicles 13:14 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms The ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months: and Yahweh blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that he had.
- 1 Chronicles 21:10 שָׁל֕וֹשׁ adj Cardinal number fs Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: choose you one of them, that I may do it to you.
- 1 Chronicles 21:12 שָׁל֨וֹשׁ שְׁלֹשָׁ֨ה שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number fs adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms cs either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
- 1 Chronicles 23:8 שְׁלֹשָֽׁה adj Cardinal number ms The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
- 1 Chronicles 23:9 שְׁלֹשָׁ֑ה adj Cardinal number ms The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Ladan.
- 1 Chronicles 23:23 שְׁלֹשָֽׁה adj Cardinal number ms The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
- 1 Chronicles 24:13 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
- 1 Chronicles 24:18 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.
- 1 Chronicles 25:5 שָׁלֽוֹשׁ adj Cardinal number fs All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
- 1 Chronicles 25:20 לִ/שְׁלֹשָׁ֤ה prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
- 1 Chronicles 25:30 לִ/שְׁלֹשָׁ֤ה prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms for the three and twentieth to Mahazioth, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
- 1 Chronicles 26:11 שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.
- 1 Chronicles 29:27 וְ/שָׁלֽוֹשׁ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three [years] reigned he in Jerusalem.
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.
The Hebrew noun שלוש centers on the idea of “three.” Debuting at Genesis 5:22, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 381 verses across 25 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its common vocabulary. It shares a root with שלושים, שליש and שלישי. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7969 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 381
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 381 distinct verses.
- 25 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 25 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #114
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 114 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 381 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 35 verses 9%
- Numbers 33 verses 9%
- Genesis 27 verses 7%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 381 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 153 verses · 40%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 128 verses · 34%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 100 verses · 26%
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: Three 288×, Were three 11×, Thirteenth 10×
- American Standard Version: Three 269×, Thirteenth 9×, Thirteen 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Three 223×, Third 10×, Thirteenth 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Three 228×, Were 31×, And 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7969 across 424 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 43 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 6 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7969 across 424 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 57 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 H7969 across 343 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 33 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 86 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7969 across 369 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 27 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 79 further occurrences.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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.
- three, triad
Word origin
Origin: a primitive number
Forms in the corpus
The 122 distinct written forms H7969 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 62 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7969, 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.
Derived from this word
- שלושים shᵉlôwshîym H7970 thirty
- שליש shâlîysh H7991 officer
- שלישי shᵉlîyshîy H7992 third
- תלת tᵉlâth H8532 three
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 360 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 381 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 5:22
- Exodus 2:2
- Leviticus 12:4
- Numbers 1:23
- Deuteronomy 4:41
- Joshua 1:11
- Judges 1:20
- 1 Samuel 1:24
- 2 Samuel 2:18
- 1 Kings 2:11
- 2 Kings 2:17
- 1 Chronicles 2:3
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.