תְּלַת
third
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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.
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8531 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Daniel 2 verses
- Daniel 5:16 וְ/תַלְתָּ֥א conj + Adjective Ordinal number bs But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now if you can read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation of it, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 5:29 תַּלְתָּ֖א adj Ordinal number bs Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
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.
“third” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun תלת (tᵉlath). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Daniel. First canonically at Daniel 5:16, it enters the text early. It shares a root with תלת, תליתי and תלתין. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8531 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 2 verses 100%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
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: Shalt be the third 1×, Third 1×
- American Standard Version: He should be the third 1×, Shalt be the third 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Third highest 1×, You will be made the third 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Third 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8531 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8531 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8531 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8531 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- third, one of three, a third part
Word origin
[ תְּלַת ] n.[m.] a third part
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from תלת (tᵉlâth) (H8532) — three.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
תַּלֵּת
- (denom. of next w.)
- 1. to divide into three parts. Targ. Deut. XIX, 3.
- 2. to do a third time. Targ. I Kings XVIII, 34.—Part. pass. מְתַלַּת; f. מְתַלְּתָא; pl. מְתַלְּתִין; מְתַלְּתַן divided into three, having three stories. Targ. Ez. XLII, 3; 6 (not מִתַּ׳).
- to be done a third time. Targ. Y. Deut. XXVII, 26.
תְּלַת
- = h. שָׁלשׁ, three; בת׳ on the third (day &c.). Targ. O. Gen. XV, 9 תְּלָתָה ed. Berl. (oth. ed. תִּלְתָּא, read תְּלָתָא); Targ. Y. ib. בר תלת שנין (h. text משלש). Targ. Num. XII, 4. Ib. XXIX, 3; a. v. fr.—Sabb. 87ᵃ בת׳ (sub. בשבא) on the third day of the week. Ib. 36ᵃ הני ת׳ מילי וכ׳, v. שְׁנֵי. Meg. 6ᵇ ת׳ מאה וכ׳, v. תָּגָא; a. v. fr.—תלת עסר (תלתא), ת׳ עשר, ת׳ עשרה, תְּלֵיסַר, תְּלֵיסְרֵי, תִּלְתֵּיסַר thirteen. Targ. Num. XXIX, 13, sq. Targ. Gen. XIV, 4; a. fr.—Ber. 4ᵃ באורתא דת׳ וכ׳, v. נֵגְהָא. Keth. 67ᵇ דלא … תליסרי שנין whom he had not seen for thirteen years. Y. Kil. IX, 32ᵇ לסוף תלת עשרתי וכ׳ at the end of thirteen years and thirty days; a. fr.—Pl. תְּלָתִין thirty. Targ. Gen. V, 3; a. v. fr.—Sabb. 98ᵇ. Y. Kil. l. c. כל אינון תַּלְתּוֹיֵי יומיא all these thirty days. Ib. לסוף … ותַלְתָּתוֹי יומייא, v. supra; Y. Keth. XII, 35ᵃ bot. תַּלְתִּיתֵי; ib. תְּלֵיתִיתֵי. Y. Shebi. IX, 38ᵈ bot. תְּלָתִים שנין thirty years; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H8531 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/תַלְתָּ֥א | Adjective, Ordinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 5:16 | 1 |
| תַּלְתָּ֖א | Adjective, Ordinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 5:29 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8531, 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.
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Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 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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