shalosh · three

What it means

shalosh (שָׁלוֹשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “three”.

Also "third" or "three times".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A quantity of three: three persons or things together.
2. The one that comes after the second in an order.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Three. From this number comes the ordinal שְׁלִישִׁי, “third” (H7992).

• The number three Genesis 6:10
• Three days Genesis 40:12Jonah 1:17
• “Three times in the year” Exodus 23:17

Historical and cultural background

Exodus 23:14-17 commands that “Three times in the year” all the males appear before YHWH, at three feasts: Unleavened Bread, Harvest and Ingathering.

How we translate it

“Three” 398 times, “thirteen” 13, “thirteenth” 11, “third” 9. The English form depends on the number it goes with; in larger figures (“three hundred”) it is part of the number.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• three ×398
• thirteen ×13
• thirteenth ×11
• third ×9

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×29
• Exodus×35
• Leviticus×5
• Numbers×37
• Deuteronomy×9
• Joshua×16
• Judges×19
• 1 Samuel×25
• 2 Samuel×24
• 1 Kings×27
• 2 Kings×19
• 1 Chronicles×40
• 2 Chronicles×33
• Ezra×20
• Nehemiah×14
• Esther×10
• Job×10
• Proverbs×4
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×8
• Ezekiel×20
• Daniel×9
• Amos×11
• Jonah×3
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 5:22

  And Enoch walked with Elohim after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:23

  And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

• Genesis 6:10

  And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

• Genesis 6:15

  And this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

• Genesis 7:13

  On that very day Noah went into the ark, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them,

• Genesis 9:19

  These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was spread out.

• Genesis 9:28

  And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

• Genesis 11:13

  After he fathered Shelah, Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:15

  After he fathered Eber, Shelah lived four hundred and three years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 14:4

  Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

• Genesis 14:14

  When Abram heard that his brother had been taken captive, he called out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

• Genesis 17:25

  And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

• Genesis 18:2

  He lifted his eyes and looked, and look, three men were standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed down to the ground.

• Genesis 18:6

  So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quickly, three seahs of flour, fine flour! Knead it and make cakes.”

• Genesis 29:2

  He looked, and look, a well in the field, and look, there three flocks of sheep were lying beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the mouth of the well was large.

• Genesis 29:34

  She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” That is why he called his name Levi.

• Genesis 30:36

  And he put a journey of three days between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was pasturing the rest of the flocks of Laban.

• Genesis 38:24

  About three months later Judah was told, saying, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has prostituted herself, and moreover, look, she is pregnant by prostitution.” And Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned!”

• Genesis 40:10

  and on the vine were three branches; and as it budded, its blossoms came up, and its clusters ripened into grapes.

• Genesis 40:12

  Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.

• Genesis 40:13

  Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, after the former manner when you were his cupbearer.

• Genesis 40:16

  When the chief of the bakers saw that he had interpreted well, he said to Joseph, “In my dream I too saw, and look, three baskets of white bread were on my head.

• Genesis 40:18

  Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days.

• Genesis 40:19

  Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head from upon you and hang you on a pole, and the birds will eat your flesh from upon you.”

• Genesis 42:17

  He gathered them into custody for three days.

• Genesis 45:22

  To each he gave changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.

• Genesis 46:15

  These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, and Dinah his daughter; all the persons of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

• Exodus 2:2

  The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw him, that he was beautiful, she hid him three months.

• Exodus 3:18

  They will listen to your voice; and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘YHWH, the Elohim of the Hebrews, has met with us. And now, please let us go a journey of three days into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to YHWH our Elohim.’

• Exodus 5:3

  They said, “The Elohim of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a journey of three days into the wilderness and sacrifice to YHWH our Elohim, or he will fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”

• Exodus 6:18

  The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred thirty- three years.

• Exodus 7:7

  Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty- three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

• Exodus 8:27

  We will go a journey of three days into the wilderness and sacrifice to YHWH our Elohim as he tells us.”

• Exodus 10:22

  So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

• Exodus 10:23

  They did not see one another, and no one rose from his place for three days; but all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings.

• Exodus 15:22

  Then Moses led Israel onward from the Sea of Reeds, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

• Exodus 19:15

  He said to the people, “Be ready in three days; do not go near a woman.”

• Exodus 21:11

  And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out without payment, without silver.

• Exodus 23:14

  Three times in the year you shall hold a feast for me.

• Exodus 23:17

  Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord, YHWH.

And 391 more times.