שָׁלֹשׁ
three
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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.
94 distinct verses where H7969 appears in the Construct state, across 22 books. 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.
Genesis 8 verses
- Genesis 7:13 וּ/שְׁלֹ֧שֶׁת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark;
- Genesis 30:36 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
- Genesis 38:24 כְּ/מִ/שְׁלֹ֣שׁ prep + prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs cs It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
- Genesis 40:12 שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת֙ שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs adj Cardinal number ms cs Joseph said to him, "This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days.
- Genesis 40:13 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.
- Genesis 40:18 שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת֙ שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs adj Cardinal number ms cs Joseph answered, "This is the interpretation of it. The three baskets are three days.
- Genesis 40:19 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you."
- Genesis 42:17 שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs He put them all together into custody three days.
Exodus 9 verses
- Exodus 3:18 שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.'
- Exodus 5:3 שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."
- Exodus 8:27 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us."
- Exodus 10:22 שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
- Exodus 10:23 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
- Exodus 15:22 שְׁלֹֽשֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
- Exodus 19:15 לִ/שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs He said to the people, "Be ready by the third day. Don't have sexual relations with a woman."
- Exodus 32:28 כִּ/שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
- Exodus 38:26 וּ/שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.
Leviticus 2 verses
- Leviticus 12:4 וּ/שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.
- Leviticus 27:6 שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs If the person is from a month old even to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
Numbers 6 verses
- Numbers 1:46 וּ/שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs even all those who were numbered were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
- Numbers 2:32 וּ/שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps according to their hosts were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
- Numbers 4:44 שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs even those who were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand two hundred.
- Numbers 10:33 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs adj Cardinal number ms cs They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting-place for them.
- Numbers 12:4 שְׁלָשְׁתְּ/כֶ֖ם שְׁלָשְׁתָּֽ/ם adj Cardinal number ms cs + sfx pers 2mp adj Cardinal number ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, Come out you three to the tent of meeting. They three came out.
- Numbers 33:8 שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs They traveled from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.
Joshua 8 verses
- Joshua 1:11 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
- Joshua 2:16 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs She said to them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light on you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may you go your way.
- Joshua 2:22 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs They went, and came to the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but didn't find them.
- Joshua 3:2 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs It happened after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp;
- Joshua 7:3 כִּ/שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs They returned to Joshua, and said to him, Don't let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai; don't make all the people to toil there; for they are but few.
- Joshua 7:4 כִּ/שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs So there went up there of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
- Joshua 9:16 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs It happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.
- Joshua 17:11 שְׁלֹ֖שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, even the three heights.
Judges 5 verses
- Judges 7:20 שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs The three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they cried, The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon.
- Judges 14:14 שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs He said to them, Out of the eater came forth food, Out of the strong came forth sweetness. They couldn't in three days declare the riddle.
- Judges 15:11 שְׁלֹשֶׁת֩ adj Cardinal number ms cs Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
- Judges 16:27 כִּ/שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson made sport.
- Judges 19:4 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs His father-in-law, the young lady's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they ate and drink, and lodged there.
1 Samuel 10 verses
- 1 Samuel 9:20 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, don't set your mind on them; for they are found. For whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you, and for all your father's house?
- 1 Samuel 10:3 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת֙ adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms cs Then shall you go on forward from there, and you shall come to the oak of Tabor; and there shall meet you there three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
- 1 Samuel 13:2 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
- 1 Samuel 17:13 שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs adj Cardinal number ms cs The three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
- 1 Samuel 20:20 שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs I will shoot three arrows on the side of it, as though I shot at a mark.
- 1 Samuel 24:2 שְׁלֹ֧שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.
- 1 Samuel 25:2 שְׁלֹֽשֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 26:2 שְׁלֹֽשֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
- 1 Samuel 31:6 וּ/שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.
- 1 Samuel 31:8 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
2 Samuel 4 verses
- 2 Samuel 20:4 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs Then said the king to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.
- 2 Samuel 23:16 שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs The three mighty men 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 he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.
- 2 Samuel 23:17 שְׁלֹ֖שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs He said, Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this: [shall I drink] the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
- 2 Samuel 24:13 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms cs So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? now advise you, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
1 Kings 3 verses
- 1 Kings 4:32 שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five.
- 1 Kings 5:16 שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת וּ/שְׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number ms cs conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.
- 1 Kings 10:17 וּ/שְׁלֹשׁ שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs adj Cardinal number ms cs [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
2 Kings 3 verses
- 2 Kings 3:10 לִ/שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת֙ prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs The king of Israel said, Alas! for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
- 2 Kings 3:13 לִ/שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת֙ prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? get you to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother. The king of Israel said to him, No; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
- 2 Kings 25:18 שְׁלֹ֖שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
1 Chronicles 6 verses
- 1 Chronicles 10:6 וּ/שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs So Saul died, and his three sons; and all his house died together.
- 1 Chronicles 11:19 שְׁלֹ֖שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy? for with [the jeopardy of] their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
- 1 Chronicles 12:27 שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs Jehoiada was the leader of [the house of] Aaron; and with him were three thousand and seven hundred,
- 1 Chronicles 12:29 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs Of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.
- 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 29:4 שְׁלֹ֧שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses;
2 Chronicles 8 verses
- 2 Chronicles 2:2 שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
- 2 Chronicles 2:17 וּ/שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.
- 2 Chronicles 2:18 וּ/שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.
- 2 Chronicles 4:5 שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs It was a handbreadth thick; and the brim of it was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.
- 2 Chronicles 10:5 שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs He said to them, Come again to me after three days. The people departed.
- 2 Chronicles 25:13 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah, from Samaria even to Beth Horon, and struck of them three thousand, and took much spoil.
- 2 Chronicles 29:33 שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs The consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
- 2 Chronicles 35:7 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls: these were of the king's substance.
Ezra 3 verses
- Ezra 2:35 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs The children of Senaah, three thousand six hundred thirty.
- Ezra 10:8 לִ/שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs and that whoever didn't come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.
- Ezra 10:9 לִ/שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month: and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Nehemiah 1 verse
Esther 1 verse
Job 6 verses
- Job 1:3 וּ/שְׁלֹ֧שֶׁת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
- Job 1:4 לִ/שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
- Job 2:11 שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
- Job 32:1 שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- Job 32:3 וּ/בִ/שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת conj + prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
- Job 32:5 שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.
Jeremiah 2 verses
- Jeremiah 52:24 שְׁלֹ֖שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
- Jeremiah 52:28 שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת וּ/שְׁלֹשָֽׁה adj Cardinal number ms cs conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews;
Ezekiel 5 verses
- Ezekiel 14:14 שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 14:16 שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת adj Cardinal number ms cs though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.
- Ezekiel 14:18 וּ/שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered themselves.
- Ezekiel 40:10 שְׁלֹשָׁ֤ה וּ/שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה לִ/שְׁלָשְׁתָּ֑/ם adj Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs + sfx pers 3mp The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
- Ezekiel 41:16 לִ/שְׁלָשְׁתָּ֔/ם prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs + sfx pers 3mp the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings round about, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),
Daniel 1 verse
Amos 1 verse
Jonah 1 verse
Zechariah 1 verse
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.
