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Lexicon :: Strong's H7969 - šālôš

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שָׁלוֹשׁ
Transliteration
šālôš
Pronunciation
shaw-loshe'
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive number
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2403a

Variant Spellings

Variant spellings for this word: שלוש (Strongs and Gesenius) שלש (Strongs and Gesenius) שלשה (Strongs) שלושה (Strongs)

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁלוֹשׁ shâlôwsh, shaw-loshe'; or שָׁלֹשׁ shâlôsh; masculine שְׁלוֹשָׁה shᵉlôwshâh; or שְׁלֹשָׁה shᵉlôshâh; a primitive number; three; occasionally (ordinal) third, or (multiple) thrice:—+ fork, + often(-times), third, thir(-teen, -teenth), three, + thrice. Compare H7991.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 430x

The KJV translates Strong's H7969 in the following manner: three (388x), thirteen (with H6240) (13x), thirteenth (with H6240) (11x), third (9x), thrice (with H6471) (4x), threescore and thirteen (with H7657) (2x), stories (1x), forks (with H7053) (1x), oftentimes (with H6471) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 430x
The KJV translates Strong's H7969 in the following manner: three (388x), thirteen (with H6240) (13x), thirteenth (with H6240) (11x), third (9x), thrice (with H6471) (4x), threescore and thirteen (with H7657) (2x), stories (1x), forks (with H7053) (1x), oftentimes (with H6471) (1x).

  1. three, triad

    1. 3, 300, third

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁלוֹשׁ shâlôwsh, shaw-loshe'; or שָׁלֹשׁ shâlôsh; masculine שְׁלוֹשָׁה shᵉlôwshâh; or שְׁלֹשָׁה shᵉlôshâh; a primitive number; three; occasionally (ordinal) third, or (multiple) thrice:—+ fork, + often(-times), third, thir(-teen, -teenth), three, + thrice. Compare H7991.
STRONGS H7969: Abbreviations
שָׁלשׁ, שָׁלוֺשׁ, שְׁלשָׁה 430 noun masculine and feminine a three, triad (Late Hebrew id.; שלש SI2; שלשן 30MI2; Phoenician שלש; Assyrian šalaštu, šalatu; Sabean שלתֿ HomChr 47, 124, but also תֿלתֿ, etc., Id.47, A. u. A. ii. 175 Sab. DenkmNo. 31, 8; Arabic bdb102505, bdb102506; Ethiopic bdb102507bdb102508Aramaic תְּלָתָא, bdb102509; Nabataean תלת Lzb377; Palmyrene תלת (in תלת מאה) ReckendZMg xiii (1888), 408; see also Köii. 1. 208); — masculine שָׁלשׁ וֺשׁ - rare, chiefly late), with noun feminine Amos 4:8 + 90 times, also construct שְׁלשׁ Genesis 18:6 + 65 times (but Genesis 38:24 read perhaps שְׁלשֶׁת Samaritan, compare Di and others), שְׁלָשֿׁ Exodus 21:11; feminine שְׁלשָׁה (וֺשָׁה - rare, chiefly late), with noun masculine Genesis 6:10 + 149 times, also construct שְׁלשֶׁת Amos 4:4 + 92 times (3+10=13 are additional; on rare exceptions to rule of gender compare Ges§ 97c), suffix שְׁלָשְׁתְּכֶם Numbers 12:4, שְׁלָשְׁתָּם Numbers 12:4; Ezekiel 40:10; Ezekiel 41:16; — three (Hexateuch chiefly P):
1. no other number:
a. before plural noun, שָׁלשׁ + 51 times, e.g. אַמוֺת שׁ׳ Exodus 27:1 +, בָּאַמָּה שׁ׳ 1 Kings 7:27, שְׁלשָׁה + 90 times, e.g. Genesis 18:2 + (so always שְׁלשׁ, שְׁלשֶׁת; read מִשְׁלשֶׁת Genesis 38:24 Sam Di; = מִשְּׁ׳, from מִןֿ); after noun (late: on 1 Samuel 1:24 see [שִׁלֵּשׁ) 1 Chronicles 25:5 + 17 times; noun omitted 1 Samuel 17:4; 2 Samuel 24:12 + 42 times
b. = ordinal יָמִים לִשׁ׳ Exodus 19:5 on third day; הַיּוֺם שׁ׳ הַיָּמִים 1 Samuel 9:20, הַיּוֺם הַשּׁ׳ 1 Samuel 30:13, both = three days ago; especially לְ בִּשְׁנַת שׁ׳ 1 Kings 15:28 + 7 times (Ges§ 134o).
2. 13, with noun feminine: שְׁלשׁ עֶשְׂרֵהשָׁנַה Genesis 17:25; 1 Kings 7:1 — Genesis 14:4 († שְׁלשֿׁ), Jeremiah 1:2; Jeremiah 25:3; before ערים Joshua 21:19; after, Joshua 19:16 + 3 times, before עִיר Joshua 21:33; 1 Chronicles 6:43, אַמּוֺת Ezekiel 40:11; with noun masculine שְׁלשָׁה עָשָׂר before פָּרִים Numbers 29:14; after, Numbers 29:13; ordinal before יוֺם Esther 3:12; Esther 9:1; after, Esther 9:17; יוֺם omitted Esther 3:13; Esther 8:12; Esther 9:18; גוֺרָל omitted 1 Chronicles 24:13; 1 Chronicles 25:20; 1 Chronicles 26:11.
3. 300=שְׁלשׁ מֵאוֺת Genesis 5:22 + 59 times (1 Chronicles 11:11 perhaps intentional change [HPSSm] from שְׁמֹנֶה || 2 Samuel 23:8 which certainly original, Vrss Th We Dr and modern); 3000 = שְׁלשֶׁת אֲלָפִים Exodus 32:28 + 28 times
4. with tense, שׁ׳ following Numbers 1:43 + 11 times, precedes Leviticus 12:4 + 17 times, + (as ordinal) 3+20 Jeremiah 52:30 + 3 times; 20+3 2 Kings 12:7 + 2 times
5. as round, or conventional, number: 2 (or) 3, Amos 4:8; Deuteronomy 17:6; Joshua 7:3; 2 Kings 9:32; Isaiah 17:6; 3 (and) 4, Proverbs 30:15, 18, 21, 29; three days' journey Exodus 3:18; Exodus 5:3; Exodus 8:23, etc.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H8532.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

5:22; 6:10; 14:4; 17:25; 18:2; 18:6; 38:24; 38:24

Exodus

3:18; 5:3; 8:23; 19:5; 21:11; 27:1; 32:28

Leviticus

12:4

Numbers

1:43; 12:4; 12:4; 29:13; 29:14

Deuteronomy

17:6

Joshua

7:3; 19:16; 21:19; 21:33

1 Samuel

1:24; 9:20; 17:4; 30:13

2 Samuel

23:8; 24:12

1 Kings

7:1; 7:27; 15:28

2 Kings

9:32; 12:7

1 Chronicles

6:43; 11:11; 24:13; 25:5; 25:20; 26:11

Esther

3:12; 3:13; 8:12; 9:1; 9:17; 9:18

Proverbs

30:15; 30:18; 30:21; 30:29

Isaiah

3; 17:6

Jeremiah

1:2; 25:3; 52:30

Ezekiel

40:10; 40:11; 41:16

Amos

4:4; 4:8; 4:8

H7969

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Strong's Number H7969 matches the Hebrew שָׁלוֹשׁ (šālôš),
which occurs 431 times in 381 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 8 (Jos 1:11–1Sa 25:2)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:11 - “Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, saying, ‘Prepare provisions for yourselves, for within three H7969 days you are to cross this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God is giving you, to possess it.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:16 - And she said to them, “Go to the hill country, lest the pursuers reach you. And hide yourselves there for three H7969 days until the pursuers return. Then afterward you may go on your way.”

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And they went and came to the hill country and remained there for three H7969 days until the pursuers returned. The pursuers had sought them [fn]all along the road but had not found them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:2 - Now it happened that at the end of three H7969 days the officers went through the midst of the camp;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:3 - Then they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up; only about two or three H7969 thousand men need go up to strike down Ai; do not have all the people toil up there, for they are few.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:4 - So about three H7969 thousand men from the people went up there, but they fled [fn]from the men of Ai.

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Now it happened at the end of three H7969 days after they had cut a covenant with them, that they heard that they were near them and that they were living [fn]nearly among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:14 - And Caleb dispossessed from there the three H7969 sons of Anak: Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the children of Anak.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:11 - And in Issachar and in Asher, Manasseh had 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, the third H7969 is Napheth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:4 - “Provide for yourselves three H7969 men from [fn]each tribe that I may send them, and that they may arise and walk through the land and write a description of it according to their inheritance; then they shall [fn]return to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:6 - and Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen H7969 cities with their villages;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:4 - Then the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. And the sons of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, [fn]received thirteen H7969 cities by lot from the tribe of Judah and from the tribe of the Simeonites and from the tribe of Benjamin.

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And the sons of Gershon [fn]received thirteen H7969 cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:19 - All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen H7969 cities with their pasture lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:32 - From the tribe of Naphtali, they gave Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands and Hammoth-dor with its pasture lands and Kartan with its pasture lands; three H7969 cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:33 - All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen H7969 cities with their pasture lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:20 - Then they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had [fn]promised; and he dispossessed from there the three H7969 sons of Anak.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:6 - Now the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 H7969 men; but all the rest of the people kneeled to drink water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:7 - And Yahweh said to Gideon, “I will save you with the 300 H7969 men who lapped and will give the Midianites into your hands; so let all the other people go, each man to his place.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:8 - So [fn]the 300 men took the people’s provisions and their trumpets into their hands. And [fn]Gideon sent all the other men of Israel, each to his tent, but retained the 300 H7969 men; and the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:16 - And he divided the 300 H7969 men into three H7969 [fn]companies, and he put trumpets and empty pitchers into the hands of all of them, with torches inside the pitchers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:20 - Then the three H7969 [fn]companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers, and they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing and called out, “A sword for Yahweh and for Gideon!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:22 - So they blew 300 H7969 trumpets. And Yahweh set the sword of one against another even throughout the whole camp. And the camp fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the edge of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:4 -

Then Gideon and the 300 H7969 men who were with him came to the Jordan and crossed over, weary yet pursuing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:22 -

And Abimelech governed over Israel three H7969 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:43 - So he took [fn]his people and divided them into three H7969 [fn]companies and lay in wait in the field; then he looked, and behold, the people were coming out from the city. So he arose against them and struck them down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:2 - And he judged Israel twenty-three H7969 years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:26 - ‘While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns and in Aroer and its towns and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, 300 H7969 years, why did you not deliver them for yourself within that time?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:14 - So he said to them,

“Out of the eater came something to eat,

And out of the strong came something sweet.”

But they could not tell the riddle in three H7969 days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4 - So Samson went and caught 300 H7969 foxes and took torches and turned the foxes tail to tail and put one torch in the middle between two tails.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then 3,000 H7969 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”

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Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have deceived me these three H7969 times and have not told me where your great strength is.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - Now the house was full of men and women, and all the lords of the Philistines were there. And about 3,000 H7969 men and women were on the roof looking on while Samson was amusing them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:4 - And his father-in-law, the girl’s father, prevailed upon him; and he remained with him three H7969 days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:24 - Now when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with a three-year-old H7969 bull and one [fn]ephah of flour and a jug of wine and brought him to the house of Yahweh in Shiloh, although the boy was young.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:13 - And this was the legal judgment for the priests with the people: when any man was offering a sacrifice, the priest’s young man would come while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged H7969 fork in his hand.

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Yahweh indeed visited Hannah; and she conceived and gave birth to three H7969 sons and two daughters. And the young boy Samuel grew before Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:20 - “As for your donkeys which were lost three H7969 days ago, do not set your heart on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father’s household?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:3 - “Then you will go on further from there, and you will come as far as the [fn]oak of Tabor, and there three H7969 men going up to God at Bethel will meet you, one carrying three H7969 young goats, another carrying three H7969 loaves of bread, and another carrying a jug of wine;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:8 - And he [fn]numbered them in Bezek; and the sons of Israel were 300,000 H7969, and the men of Judah 30,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:11 - Then the next morning Saul put the people in three H7969 companies; and they came into the midst of the camp at the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

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And Saul chose for himself 3,000 H7969 men of Israel, of which 2,000 were with Saul in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while 1,000 were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. But he sent away the rest of the people, each to his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:17 - And the [fn]raiders came from the camp of the Philistines in three H7969 [fn]companies: one [fn]company turned [fn]toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:21 - And the charge was [fn]two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks H7969, and the axes, and to fix the goad.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:13 - And the three H7969 older sons of Jesse had gone. They had gone after Saul to the battle. And the names of his three H7969 sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and the second to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:14 - But David was the youngest. Now the three H7969 oldest had gone after Saul,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:20 - “And I will shoot three H7969 arrows to the side, as though I sent them towards a target.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:41 - When the young man was gone, David rose from the south side and fell on his [fn]face to the ground and bowed three H7969 times. And they kissed each other and wept together, but David wept more.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2 - Then Saul took three H7969 thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.

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Now there was a man in Maon whose work was in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three H7969 thousand sheep and one thousand goats. And it happened, while he was shearing his sheep in Carmel


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