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שְׁלֹשִׁים

thirty

H7970 Strong's Hebrew
shᵉlôwshîym Transliteration
/shel-o-sheem'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 174 appearances

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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 שלושים centers on the idea of “thirty.” Debuting at Genesis 5:3, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 163 verses in 20 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. Sharing its root, it stands alongside שלוש, 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
thirty
Modern gloss
thirty
Strong's 1890 agrees
Strong's 1890 and current BDB scholarship align on this entry's primary sense — a good signal that the gloss above is unambiguous and stable. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H7970 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 →

163
distinct verses
The word appears in 163 distinct verses.
20 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 20 of 39 Old Testament books.
Genesis 5:3
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Genesis 5:3.
Zechariah 11:13
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Zechariah 11:13.
#268
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 268 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 163 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 67 · 41%
  • Historical 86 · 53%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 10 · 6%

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 163 distinct verses.

  • Torah (Pentateuch) 67 verses · 41%
  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 54 verses · 33%
  • Writings (Ketuvim) 42 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: Thirty 122×, Was thirty 10×, Thirtieth 8×
  • American Standard Version: Thirty 114×, Was thirty 9×, Thirtieth 8×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Thirty 48×, Hundred and thirty 12×, Thirty-three 5×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Thirty 20×, And 16×, Were 13×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H7970 across 173 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Thirty” 122×
  • “Was thirty” 10×
  • “Thirtieth” 8×
  • “Were thirty” 8×
  • “About thirty” 3×
  • “Among the thirty” 3×
  • “Thereof thirty” 3×
  • “He had thirty” 2×
  • “Shall be thirty” 2×

Plus 12 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 2 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H7970 across 173 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Thirty” 114×
  • “Was thirty” 9×
  • “Thirtieth” 8×
  • “Were thirty” 7×
  • “Them” 4×
  • “About thirty” 3×
  • “He had thirty” 2×
  • “Over the thirty” 2×
  • “Shall be thirty” 2×
  • “Than the thirty” 2×
  • “Thereof thirty” 2×

Plus 18 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 H7970 across 120 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Thirty” 48×
  • “Hundred and thirty” 12×
  • “Thirty-three” 5×
  • “Thirty-two” 5×
  • “About thirty” 3×
  • “And” 3×
  • “Thirty-ninth” 3×
  • “Thirty-one” 3×
  • “Thirty-seventh” 3×
  • “Among the thirty” 2×
  • “The” 2×
  • “Thirty-eighth” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 23 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 54 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H7970 across 83 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Thirty” 20×
  • “And” 16×
  • “Were” 13×
  • “Of” 6×
  • “The” 4×
  • “Years” 4×
  • “About” 3×
  • “Are” 3×
  • “Th” 3×

Plus 11 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 94 further occurrences.


Senses in the full BDB

What do BDB’s symbols mean?

BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:

Symbol Meaning
𝔊 the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX)
𝔙 the Vulgate (the Latin translation)
𝔖 the Syriac version (the Peshitta)
𝔗 the Targum (the Aramaic translation)
ψ the Psalms
√ root (the underlying root or stem)
‖ parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel)
† the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited

The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.

  • 1. bef. n. sg.
  • 2. as ordin.

Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.


Word origin

שְׁלֹשִׁים (very seldom שְׁלוֹשִׁים, שְׁלֹשִׁם ) 174 n.indecl. thirty

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from שלוש (shâlôwsh) (H7969) — three.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TWOT: 2403d


Forms in the corpus

The 38 distinct written forms H7970 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.

Form Parsing Example Uses
שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Deuteronomy 34:8 41
שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Daniel 12:12 30
שְׁלֹשִׁ֤ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Genesis 5:3 16
וּ/שְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Ezekiel 46:22 13
וּ/שְׁלֹשִׁ֛ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Exodus 6:16 10
וּ/שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Genesis 6:15 7
שְׁלֹשִׁ֨ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 1 Kings 16:23 7
וּ/שְׁלֹשִֽׁים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Ezra 2:35 6
וּ/שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Ezekiel 41:6 4
וּ/שְׁלֹשִׁ֤ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 1 Chronicles 3:4 4
בִ/שְׁלֹשִׁ֨ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 2 Kings 25:27 2
ה/שלושים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 1 Chronicles 11:11 2
וּ/שְׁלֹשִׁ֨ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 1 Chronicles 19:7 2
כִּ/שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 1 Samuel 9:22 2
שְׁלֹשִׁ֑ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Genesis 18:30 2
שְׁלֹשִֽׁים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Genesis 18:30 2
שְׁלֹשִׁים֙ Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Exodus 26:8 2
שלשים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 2 Samuel 23:13 2
בִּ/שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Ezekiel 1:1 1
בַּ/שְּׁלֹשִׁ֑ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 2 Samuel 23:24 1
הַ/שְּׁלֹשִׁ֑ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 1 Chronicles 27:6 1
הַ/שְּׁלֹשִׁ֖ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 1 Chronicles 27:6 1
הַ/שְּׁלֹשִׁ֣ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 2 Samuel 23:23 1
הַ/שְּׁלוֹשִׁ֗ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 1 Chronicles 11:25 1
הַ/שְּׁלוֹשִׁ֨ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 1 Chronicles 11:15 1
הַ/שָּׁלִישִׁים֒ Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 1 Chronicles 12:18 1
וּ/שְׁלֹשִׁ֑ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 1 Kings 20:15 1
וּ/שְׁלֹשִׁים֙ Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Judges 12:14 1
כִּ/שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Judges 20:39 1
כִּ/שְׁלֹשִׁ֤ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Joshua 7:5 1
מֵ/הַ/שְּׁלֹשִׁ֣ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 2 Samuel 23:13 1
שְׁלֹשִׁ֔ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Ezra 1:10 1
שְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Nehemiah 7:70 1
שְׁלֹשִׁ֗ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Ezra 1:9 1
שְׁלֹשִׁים֩ Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 2 Chronicles 20:31 1
שְׁלוֹשִׁ֥ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute Esther 4:11 1
שְׁלוֹשִׁ֨ים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 2 Chronicles 16:12 1
שְׁלוֹשִֽׁים Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute 1 Chronicles 11:42 1

Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7970, 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

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Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 153 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 163 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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