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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 going to cross this Jordan, to go in to take possession of the land which the LORD 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, so that the pursuers will not encounter 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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So they departed and came to the hill country, and remained there for three H7969 days, until the pursuers returned. Now the pursuers had searched for them [fn]all along the road, but had not found them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:2 - Then 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; have only about two or three H7969 thousand men go up and attack Ai; do not trouble all the people 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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However, it came about at the end of three H7969 days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were neighbors and that they were living [fn]within their land.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:11 - 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 so 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 - 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 to the sons of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, thirteen H7969 cities were given by lot from the tribe of Judah, from the tribe of the Simeonites, and from the tribe of Benjamin.

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And to the sons of Gershon thirteen H7969 cities were given by lot from the families of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, 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 - And from the tribe of Naphtali, they gave Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the one who commits manslaughter, with its pasture lands, 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 drove out from there the three H7969 sons of Anak.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:6

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:7 - And the LORD said to Gideon, “I will save you with the three H7969 hundred men who lapped, and will hand the Midianites over to you; so have all the other people go, each man to his [fn]home.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:8 - So [fn]the three hundred men took the people’s provisions and their trumpets in their hands. And [fn]Gideon dismissed all the other men of Israel, each to his tent, but retained the three H7969 hundred 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 three H7969 hundred men into three H7969 [fn]units, 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 - When the three H7969 [fn]units blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers, they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing, and shouted, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:22 - And when they blew the three H7969 hundred trumpets, the LORD set the sword of one against another even throughout the entire [fn]army; and the [fn]army 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 three H7969 hundred men who were with him came to the Jordan and crossed over, exhausted yet still pursuing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:22 -

Now Abimelech ruled over Israel for 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]units, and lay in wait in the field; when he looked and [fn]saw the people coming out from the city, he [fn]attacked them and killed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:2 - He judged Israel for 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 was living in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, three H7969 hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time?

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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 answer to the riddle in three H7969 days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4 - And Samson went and caught three H7969 hundred jackals, and took torches, and turned the jackals tail to tail and put one torch in the middle between two tails.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then three H7969 thousand 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, “Just 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 toyed with 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 governors of the Philistines were there. And about three H7969 thousand men and women were on the roof looking on while Samson was entertaining them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:4 - His father-in-law, the girl’s father, prevailed upon him, and he remained with him for three H7969 days. So they ate and drank and stayed 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, one ephah of flour, and a jug of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD in Shiloh, although the child was young.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:13 - And this was the custom of the priests with the people: when anyone was offering a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come while the meat was cooking, with a three-pronged H7969 fork in his hand.

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[fn]The LORD indeed visited Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three H7969 sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew up [fn]before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:20 - “And as for your donkeys that wandered off three H7969 days ago, do not be concerned about them, for they have been found. And for whom is everything 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 farther 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 Box 1Sa 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:8 - He [fn]counted them in Bezek; and the sons of Israel were three H7969 hundred thousand, and the men of Judah, thirty thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:11 - 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 and killed the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

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Now Saul chose for himself three H7969 thousand men of Israel, of whom two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. But he sent the rest of the people away, each to his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:17 - Then [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 - The charge was [fn]two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks H7969, and the axes, and to fix the [fn]cattle goads.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:13 - The three H7969 older sons of Jesse had [fn]followed Saul to the battle. And the names of his three H7969 sons who had gone into the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and second to him, Abinadab, and the third, Shammah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:14 - So David was the youngest. Now the three H7969 oldest followed Saul,

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:41 - When the boy was gone, David got up from the south side, then he fell on his face to the ground and bowed three H7969 times. And they kissed each other and wept together, until David wept immeasurably.

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

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Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; and the man was very [fn]rich, and he had three H7969 thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And it came about while he was shearing his sheep in Carmel


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