שָׁלֹשׁ
three
H7969
Strong's Hebrew
shâlôwsh
Transliteration
/shaw-loshe'/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
431
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
BDB Definition
three, triad
- 3, 300, third
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.
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.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 171 times (40%)
- Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 161 times (37%)
- Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Construct 98 times (23%)
- Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Construct 1 time (0%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 431 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
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Genesis 27 verses
- Genesis 5:22 שְׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:23 וּ/שְׁלֹ֥שׁ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.
- Genesis 6:10 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 6:15 שְׁלֹ֧שׁ adj Cardinal number fs This is how you shall make it. The length of the ark will be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
- 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 9:19 שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.
- Genesis 9:28 שְׁלֹ֤שׁ adj Cardinal number fs Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
- Genesis 11:13 שָׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:15 שָׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs and Shelah lived after he became the father of Eber four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 14:4 וּ/שְׁלֹשׁ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.
- Genesis 14:14 וּ/שְׁלֹ֣שׁ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.
- Genesis 17:25 שְׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
- Genesis 18:2 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
- Genesis 18:6 שְׁלֹ֤שׁ adj Cardinal number fs Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly make ready three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."
- Genesis 29:2 שְׁלֹשָׁ֤ה adj Cardinal number ms He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was great.
- Genesis 29:34 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms She conceived again, and bare a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.
- 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 40:10 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters of it brought forth ripe grapes.
- 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 40:16 שְׁלֹשָׁ֛ה adj Cardinal number ms When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.
- 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.
- Genesis 45:22 שְׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs To all of them he gave each man changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
- Genesis 46:15 וְ/שָׁלֹֽשׁ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
Exodus 27 verses
- Exodus 2:2 שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
- 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 6:18 שָׁלֹ֧שׁ adj Cardinal number fs The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years.
- Exodus 7:7 שָׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
- 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 21:11 שְׁלָ֨שׁ adj Cardinal number fs If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
- Exodus 23:14 שָׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.
- Exodus 23:17 שָׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
- Exodus 25:32 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה וּ/שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ adj Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;
- Exodus 25:33 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה וּ/שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand;
- Exodus 27:1 וְ/שָׁלֹ֥שׁ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs "You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits.
- Exodus 27:14 שְׁלֹשָׁ֔ה שְׁלֹשָֽׁה adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- Exodus 27:15 שְׁלֹשָׁ֔ה שְׁלֹשָֽׁה adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- 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 34:23 שָׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- Exodus 34:24 שָׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
- Exodus 37:18 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה וּ/שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ adj Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms There were six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side:
- Exodus 37:19 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה וּ/שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
- Exodus 38:1 וְ/שָׁלֹ֥שׁ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.
- Exodus 38:14 שְׁלֹשָׁ֔ה שְׁלֹשָֽׁה adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms The hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
- Exodus 38:15 שְׁלֹשָׁ֔ה שְׁלֹשָֽׁה adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- 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 5 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 14:10 וּ/שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms "On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
- Leviticus 19:23 שָׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs "'When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years shall they be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.
- Leviticus 25:21 לִ/שְׁלֹ֖שׁ prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.
- 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 33 verses
- Numbers 1:23 וּ/שְׁלֹ֥שׁ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
- Numbers 1:43 שְׁלֹשָׁ֧ה adj Cardinal number ms those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
- 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 2:13 וּ/שְׁלֹ֥שׁ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
- Numbers 2:30 שְׁלֹשָׁ֧ה adj Cardinal number ms His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
- 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 3:43 שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
- Numbers 3:46 הַ/שְּׁלֹשָׁ֔ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites,
- Numbers 3:50 וּ/שְׁלֹ֥שׁ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
- 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 15:9 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms then shall he offer with the bull a meal-offering of three tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil:
- Numbers 22:28 שָׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs 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 שָׁל֣וֹשׁ adj Cardinal number fs 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 שָׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs 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 שָׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs 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 26:7 שְׁלֹשָׁ֤ה adj Cardinal number ms These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.
- Numbers 26:25 וּ/שְׁלֹ֥שׁ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs These are the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.
- Numbers 26:47 שְׁלֹשָׁ֧ה adj Cardinal number ms These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred.
- Numbers 26:62 שְׁלֹשָׁ֤ה adj Cardinal number ms Those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
- Numbers 28:12 וּ/שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms and three tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a meal-offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal-offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;
- Numbers 28:20 שְׁלֹשָׁ֨ה adj Cardinal number ms and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenth parts shall you offer for a bull, and two tenth parts for the ram;
- Numbers 28:28 שְׁלֹשָׁ֤ה adj Cardinal number ms and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for each bull, two tenth parts for the one ram,
- Numbers 29:3 שְׁלֹשָׁ֤ה adj Cardinal number ms and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the ram,
- Numbers 29:9 שְׁלֹשָׁ֤ה adj Cardinal number ms and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the one ram,
- Numbers 29:13 שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms and you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh; thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;
- Numbers 29:14 שְׁלֹשָׁ֨ה לִ/שְׁלֹשָׁ֤ה adj Cardinal number ms prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams,
- Numbers 31:36 שְׁלֹשׁ adj Cardinal number fs The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:
- Numbers 31:43 שְׁלֹשׁ adj Cardinal number fs (now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
- 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.
- Numbers 33:39 שָׁלֹ֧שׁ adj Cardinal number fs Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died in Mount Hor.
- Numbers 35:14 שְׁלֹ֣שׁ שְׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs adj Cardinal number fs You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities shall you give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.
Deuteronomy 8 verses
- Deuteronomy 4:41 שָׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;
- Deuteronomy 14:28 שָׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:
- Deuteronomy 16:16 שָׁל֣וֹשׁ adj Cardinal number fs Three times in a year shall all your males appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty:
- Deuteronomy 17:6 שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 19:2 שָׁל֥וֹשׁ adj Cardinal number fs you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 19:7 שָׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for you.
- Deuteronomy 19:9 שָׁלֹ֣שׁ הַ/שָּׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number fs if you shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you, besides these three:
- Deuteronomy 19:15 שְׁלֹשָֽׁה adj Cardinal number ms One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
Joshua 16 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 15:14 שְׁלוֹשָׁ֖ה adj Cardinal number ms Caleb drove out there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
- 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.
- Joshua 18:4 שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms Appoint for you three men of each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come to me.
- Joshua 19:6 שְׁלֹשׁ adj Cardinal number fs and Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:
- Joshua 21:4 שְׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
- Joshua 21:6 שְׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs The children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
- Joshua 21:19 שְׁלֹשׁ adj Cardinal number fs All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
- Joshua 21:32 שָׁלֹֽשׁ adj Cardinal number fs Out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Hammothdor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities.
- Joshua 21:33 שְׁלֹשׁ adj Cardinal number fs All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Judges 18 verses
- Judges 1:20 שְׁלֹשָׁ֖ה adj Cardinal number ms They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and he drove out there the three sons of Anak.
- Judges 7:6 שְׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.
- Judges 7:7 בִּ/שְׁלֹשׁ֩ prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs Yahweh said to Gideon, By the three hundred men who lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand; and let all the people go every man to his place.
- Judges 7:8 וּ/בִ/שְׁלֹשׁ conj + prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
- Judges 7:16 שְׁלֹשׁ שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה adj Cardinal number fs adj Cardinal number ms He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
- 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 7:22 שְׁלֹשׁ adj Cardinal number fs They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
- Judges 8:4 וּ/שְׁלֹשׁ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Gideon came to the Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
- Judges 9:22 שָׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.
- Judges 9:43 לִ/שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms He took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and, behold, the people came forth out of the city; He rose up against them, and struck them.
- Judges 10:2 וְ/שָׁלֹ֖שׁ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
- Judges 11:26 שְׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; why didn't you recover them within that time?
- 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 15:4 שְׁלֹשׁ adj Cardinal number fs Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails.
- 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 16:15 שָׁלֹ֤שׁ adj Cardinal number fs She said to him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me? you have mocked me these three times, and have not told me in which your great strength lies.
- 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 21 verses
- 1 Samuel 1:24 שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ adj Cardinal number ms When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to the house of Yahweh in Shiloh: and the child was young.
- 1 Samuel 2:13 שְׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his hand;
- 1 Samuel 2:21 שְׁלֹשָֽׁה adj Cardinal number ms Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.
- 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 11:8 שְׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs He numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
- 1 Samuel 11:11 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms It was so on the next day, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it happened, that those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
- 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 13:17 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms The spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual;
- 1 Samuel 13:21 וְ/לִ/שְׁלֹ֥שׁ conj + prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
- 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 17:14 וּ/שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.
- 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 20:41 שָׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of [a place] toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.
- 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 30:12 שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה וּ/שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
- 1 Samuel 30:13 שְׁלֹשָֽׁה adj Cardinal number ms David said to him, To whom belong you? and whence are you? He said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.
- 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 20 verses
- 2 Samuel 2:18 שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ adj Cardinal number ms The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
- 2 Samuel 2:31 שְׁלֹשׁ adj Cardinal number fs But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred sixty men died.
- 2 Samuel 5:5 וְ/שָׁלֹשׁ֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
- 2 Samuel 6:11 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms The ark of Yahweh remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and Yahweh blessed Obed-edom, and all his house.
- 2 Samuel 13:38 שָׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
- 2 Samuel 14:27 שְׁלוֹשָׁ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face.
- 2 Samuel 18:14 שְׁלֹשָׁ֨ה adj Cardinal number ms Then said Joab, I may not wait thus with you. He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
- 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 21:1 שָׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.
- 2 Samuel 21:16 שְׁלֹ֤שׁ adj Cardinal number fs and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David.
- 2 Samuel 23:9 בִּ/שְׁלֹשָׁ֨ה prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away.
- 2 Samuel 23:13 שְׁלֹשָׁ֜ה adj Cardinal number ms Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
- 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 23:18 הַ/שְּׁלֹשָׁ֔ה שְׁלֹ֥שׁ בַּ/שְּׁלֹשָֽׁה ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number fs prep det + Adjective Cardinal number ms Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
- 2 Samuel 23:19 הַ/שְּׁלֹשָׁה֙ הַ/שְּׁלֹשָׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms Wasn't he most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: however he didn't attain to the [first] three.
- 2 Samuel 23:22 בִּ/שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.
- 2 Samuel 23:23 הַ/שְּׁלֹשָׁ֖ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to the [first] three. David set him over his guard.
- 2 Samuel 24:12 שָׁלֹ֕שׁ adj Cardinal number fs Go and speak to David, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: choose you one of them, that I may do it to you.
- 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 21 verses
- 1 Kings 2:11 וְ/שָׁלֹ֖שׁ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty-three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
- 1 Kings 2:39 שָׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs It happened at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, Behold, your servants are in Gath.
- 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 6:36 שְׁלֹשָׁ֖ה adj Cardinal number ms He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 7:1 שְׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
- 1 Kings 7:4 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה שָׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number fs There were beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three ranks.
- 1 Kings 7:5 שָׁלֹ֥שׁ adj Cardinal number fs All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.
- 1 Kings 7:12 שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ adj Cardinal number ms The great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house.
- 1 Kings 7:25 שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה וּ/שְׁלֹשָׁה֩ וּ/שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה וּ/שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ adj Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.
- 1 Kings 7:27 וְ/שָׁלֹ֥שׁ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and three cubits the height of it.
- 1 Kings 9:25 שָׁלֹשׁ֩ adj Cardinal number fs Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace-offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense therewith, [on the altar] that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.
- 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.
- 1 Kings 10:22 לְ/שָׁלֹ֨שׁ prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
- 1 Kings 11:3 שְׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
- 1 Kings 12:5 שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms He said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. The people departed.
- 1 Kings 15:2 שָׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
- 1 Kings 15:28 שָׁלֹ֔שׁ adj Cardinal number fs Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha kill him, and reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 15:33 שָׁלֹ֔שׁ adj Cardinal number fs In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, [and reigned] twenty-four years.
- 1 Kings 17:21 שָׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, please let this child's soul come into him again.
- 1 Kings 22:1 שָׁלֹ֣שׁ adj Cardinal number fs They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
2 Kings 18 verses
- 2 Kings 2:17 שְׁלֹשָֽׁה adj Cardinal number ms When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but didn't find him.
- 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 9:32 שְׁלֹשָׁ֖ה adj Cardinal number ms He lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? There looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
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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
Strong's · 1890
fork
Modern gloss
three
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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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.
