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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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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 1 / 8 (Gen 5:22–Exo 37:19)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:22 - And Enoch walketh habitually with God after his begetting Methuselah three hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:23 - And all the days of Enoch are three hundred and sixty and five years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:10 - And Noah begetteth three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:15 - and this is that which thou dost with it: three hundred cubits is the length of the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:13 - In this self-same day went in Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, unto the ark;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:19 - These three are sons of Noah, and from these hath all the earth been overspread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:28 - And Noah liveth after the deluge three hundred and fifty years;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:13 - And Arphaxad liveth after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:15 - And Salah liveth after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:4 - twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and the thirteenth year they rebelled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - And Abram heareth that his brother hath been taken captive, and he draweth out his trained domestics, three hundred and eighteen, and pursueth unto Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:25 - and Ishmael his son is a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:2 - and he lifteth up his eyes and looketh, and lo, three men standing by him, and he seeth, and runneth to meet them from the opening of the tent, and boweth himself towards the earth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:6 - And Abraham hasteth towards the tent, unto Sarah, and saith, 'Hasten three measures of flour-meal, knead, and make cakes;'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - and he looketh, and lo, a well in the field, and lo, there three droves of a flock crouching by it, for from that well they water the droves, and the great stone is on the mouth of the well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:34 - And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith, 'Now is the time, my husband is joined unto me, because I have born to him three sons,' therefore hath one called his name Levi.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - and setteth a journey of three days between himself and Jacob; and Jacob is feeding the rest of the flock of Laban.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24 - And it cometh to pass about three months after, that it is declared to Judah, saying, 'Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath committed fornication; and also, lo, she hath conceived by fornication:' and Judah saith, 'Bring her out -- and she is burnt.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:10 - and in the vine are three branches, and it is as it were flourishing; gone up hath its blossom, its clusters have ripened grapes;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:12 - And Joseph saith to him, 'This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:13 - yet, within three days doth Pharaoh lift up thy head, and hath put thee back on thy station, and thou hast given the cup of Pharaoh into his hand, according to the former custom when thou wast his butler.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:16 - And the chief of the bakers seeth that he hath interpreted good, and he saith unto Joseph, 'I also am in a dream, and lo, three baskets of white bread are on my head,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:18 - And Joseph answereth and saith, 'This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:19 - yet, within three days doth Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and hath hanged thee on a tree, and the birds have eaten thy flesh from off thee.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:17 - and he removeth them unto charge three days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:22 - to all of them hath he given -- to each changes of garments, and to Benjamin he hath given three hundred silverlings, and five changes of garments;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:15 - These are sons of Leah whom she bare to Jacob in Padan-Aram, and Dinah his daughter; all the persons of his sons and his daughters are thirty and three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:2 - and the woman conceiveth, and beareth a son, and she seeth him that he is fair, and she hideth him three months,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - 'And they have hearkened to thy voice, and thou hast entered, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye have said unto him, Jehovah, God of the Hebrews, hath met with us; and now, let us go, we pray thee, a journey of three days into the wilderness, and we sacrifice to Jehovah our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3 - And they say, 'The God of the Hebrews hath met with us, let us go, we pray thee, a journey of three days into the wilderness, and we sacrifice to Jehovah our God, lest He meet us with pestilence or with sword.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:18 - And the sons of Kohath are Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath are a hundred and thirty and three years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:7 - and Moses is a son of eighty years, and Aaron is a son of eighty and three years, in their speaking unto Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:27 - A journey of three days we go into the wilderness, and have sacrificed to Jehovah our God, as He saith unto us.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:22 - And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness -- thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:23 - they have not seen one another, and none hath risen from his place three days; and to all the sons of Israel there hath been light in their dwellings.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - And Moses causeth Israel to journey from the Red Sea, and they go out unto the wilderness of Shur, and they go three days in the wilderness, and have not found water,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:15 - and he saith unto the people, 'Be ye prepared for the third day, come not nigh unto a woman.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:11 - and if these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:14 - 'Three times thou dost keep a feast to Me in a year;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:17 - 'Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the face of the Lord Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:32 - and six branches are coming out of its sides, three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the second side;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:33 - three calyxes made like almonds in the one branch, a knop and a flower, and three calyxes made like almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; so for the six branches which are coming out from the candlestick.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:1 - 'And thou hast made the altar of shittim wood, five cubits the length, and five cubits the breadth -- the altar is square -- and three cubits its height.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:14 - And the hangings at the side are fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:15 - And at the second side are hangings fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:28 - And the sons of Levi do according to the word of Moses, and there fall of the people on that day about three thousand men,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:23 - 'Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, God of Israel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:24 - for I dispossess nations from before thee, and have enlarged thy border, and no man doth desire thy land in thy going up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in a year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:18 - and six branches are coming out of its sides, three branches of the candlestick out of its one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of its second side;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:19 - three calyxes, made like almonds, in the one branch, a knop and a flower; and three calyxes, made like almonds, in another branch, a knop and a flower; so to the six branches which are coming out of the candlestick.

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