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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 4 / 8 (1Sa 26:2–2Ki 9:32)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:2 - So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having with him three H7969 thousand chosen men of Israel, to search for David in the wilderness of Ziph.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:12 - And they gave him a piece of fig cake and two clusters of raisins, and he ate; then his spirit [fn]revived. For he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three H7969 days and three H7969 nights.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:13 - And David said to him, “To whom do you belong? And where are you from?” And he said, “I am a young man of Egypt, a slave of an Amalekite; and my master forsook me when I fell sick three H7969 days ago.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:6 - Thus Saul died with his three H7969 sons, his armor bearer, and all his men on that day together.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:8 -

Now it happened on the [fn]next day, that the Philistines came to strip the slain, and they found Saul and his three H7969 sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

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Now the three H7969 sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel; and Asahel was as [fn]swift-footed as one of the gazelles which is in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:31 - But the servants of David had struck down many of Benjamin and Abner’s men, so that 360 H7969 men died.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:5 - At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three H7969 years over all Israel and Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:11 - Thus the ark of Yahweh remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three H7969 months, and Yahweh blessed Obed-edom and all his household.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:38 - So Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, and was there three H7969 years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:27 - And to Absalom there were born three H7969 sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar; she was a woman of beautiful appearance.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:14 - Then Joab said, “I will not wait around here before you.” So he took three H7969 [fn]spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was yet alive in the [fn]midst of the oak.

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Then the king said to Amasa, “Call out the men of Judah for me within three H7969 days, and you yourself stand here.”

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And there was a famine in the days of David for three H7969 years, year after year; and David sought the presence of Yahweh. And Yahweh said, “It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:16 - Then Ishbi-benob, who was among those born to the [fn]giants, the weight of whose spear was [fn]three H7969 hundred shekels of bronze in weight, [fn]was girded with a new sword, and he [fn]intended to strike down David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:9 - and after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the son of Ahohi, one of the three H7969 mighty men with David when they [fn]reproached the Philistines who were gathered together there to battle and the men of Israel had gone up to retreat.

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Then three H7969 of the thirty chief men went down and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam, while the troop of the Philistines was camping in the valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:16 - So the three H7969 mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate, and carried it and brought it to David. Nevertheless, he was not willing to drink it, but poured it out to Yahweh;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:17 - and he said, “Be it far from me, O Yahweh, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went [fn]at the risk of their lives?” Therefore he was not willing to drink it. These things the three H7969 mighty men did.

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Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the [fn]thirty. And he swung his spear against three H7969 hundred [fn]who were slain by him; and he had a name as well as the three H7969.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:19 - Of the thirty H7969 he was most honored and became their commander; however, he did not attain to the three H7969.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:22 - These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did, and had a name as well as the three H7969 mighty men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:23 - He was honored among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three H7969. And David appointed him over his guard.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:12 - “Go and speak to David, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I am offering you three H7969 things H7969; choose for yourself one of them, and I will do that to you.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:13 - 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 H7969 months before your adversaries while they pursue you? Or shall there be three H7969 days’ pestilence in your land? Now, know and see what word I should return to Him who sent me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:11 - And the [fn]time which David reigned over Israel was forty years; in Hebron he reigned seven years and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three H7969 years.

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But it happened at the end of three H7969 years, that two of the slaves of Shimei ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:32 - He also spoke 3,000 H7969 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 5:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:16 - besides Solomon’s 3,300 H7969 H7969 chief deputies who were over the [fn]project and who ruled over the people who were doing the work.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:36 - And he built the inner court with three H7969 rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.

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Now Solomon built his own house thirteen H7969 years, and he completed all his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:4 - Now there were artistic window frames in three H7969 rows, and window was opposite window in three H7969 ranks.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:5 - And all the doorways and doorposts had squared artistic frames, and window was opposite window in three H7969 ranks.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:12 - So the great court all around had three H7969 rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams even as the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:25 - It stood on twelve oxen, three H7969 facing north, three H7969 facing west, three H7969 facing south, and three H7969 facing east; and the sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:27 -

Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three H7969 cubits.

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And three H7969 times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense with them on the altar which was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:17 - And he made 300 H7969 shields of beaten gold, [fn]using [fn]three H7969 minas of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:22 - For the king had at sea the ships of Tarshish with the ships of Hiram; once every three H7969 years the ships of Tarshish came carrying gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:3 - And he had 700 wives—princesses—and 300 H7969 concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:5 - Then he said to them, “Go [fn]for three H7969 days, then return to me.” So the people went away.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:2 - He reigned three H7969 years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was [fn]Maacah the daughter of [fn]Abishalom.

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So Baasha put him to death in the third H7969 year of Asa king of Judah and became king in his place.

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In the third H7969 year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah became king over all Israel at Tirzah, and reigned twenty-four years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:21 - Then he stretched himself upon the child three H7969 times, and called to Yahweh and said, “O Yahweh my God, I pray You, let this child’s life return [fn]to him.”

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So [fn]they lived for three H7969 years without war between Aram and Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:17 - But when they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, “Send.” They sent therefore fifty men; and they searched three H7969 days but did not find him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:10 - Then the king of Israel said, “Alas! For Yahweh has called these three H7969 kings to give them into the hand of Moab.”

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Now Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What do I have to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother.” And the king of Israel said to him, “No, for Yahweh has called these three H7969 kings together to give them into the hand of Moab.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:32 - Then he lifted up his face to the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three H7969 officials looked down at him.

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