sheloshim · thirty

What it means

sheloshim (שְׁלוֹשִׁים) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thirty”.

Also "thirtieth".

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 thirty, or three tens.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Thirty; sometimes thirtieth.

• Ages and years Genesis 5:32 Samuel 5:4
• “The thirty”, David's group of mighty men 2 Samuel 23:13
• Thirty pieces of silver Zechariah 11:12

How we translate it

“Thirty” 170 times, “thirtieth” 1.

How it is translated

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

• thirty ×170
• captains ×1
• thirtieth ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×18
• Exodus×9
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×37
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×3
• Judges×15
• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×7
• 1 Kings×14
• 2 Kings×8
• 1 Chronicles×17
• 2 Chronicles×11
• Ezra×7
• Nehemiah×7
• Esther×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×4
• Daniel×1
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 5:3

  And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and fathered a son in his likeness, according to his image, and called his name Seth.

• Genesis 5:5

  And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

• Genesis 5:16

  And Mahalalel lived after he fathered Jared eight hundred and thirty years and fathered sons and daughters.

• 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 11:12

  Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and fathered Shelah.

• Genesis 11:14

  Shelah lived thirty years and fathered Eber.

• Genesis 11:16

  Eber lived thirty-four years and fathered Peleg.

• Genesis 11:17

  After he fathered Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:18

  Peleg lived thirty years and fathered Reu.

• Genesis 11:20

  Reu lived thirty-two years and fathered Serug.

• Genesis 11:22

  Serug lived thirty years and fathered Nahor.

• Genesis 18:30

  Then he said, “Please let Adonai not be angry, and I will speak: perhaps thirty will be found there.” He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

• Genesis 25:17

  These are the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred and thirty and seven years. He breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people.

• Genesis 32:15

  thirty nursing camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

• Genesis 41:46

  Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and passed through all the land of Egypt.

• 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.

• Genesis 47:9

  Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my life as an alien are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their life as aliens.”

• Exodus 6:16

  These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty- seven years.

• 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 6:20

  Amram took Jochebed, his aunt, as his wife, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred thirty- seven years.

• Exodus 12:40

  The time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

• Exodus 12:41

  At the end of the four hundred and thirty years, on that very day, all the armies of YHWH went out from the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 21:32

  If the ox gores a male slave or a female slave, he shall give thirty shekels of silver to his master, and the ox shall be stoned.

• Exodus 26:8

  The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; one measure for the eleven curtains.

• Exodus 36:15

  The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain; one measure for the eleven curtains.

• Exodus 38:24

  All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary, the gold of the wave offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.

• Leviticus 12:4

  She shall remain thirty days and three days in the blood of purification; she shall not touch any holy thing and she shall not come into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed.

• Leviticus 27:4

  And if it is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels.

• Numbers 1:35

  those of them counted from the tribe of Manasseh were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

• Numbers 1:37

  those of them counted from the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 2:21

  and his army, those of them counted, are thirty-two thousand two hundred.

• Numbers 2:23

  and his army, those of them counted, are thirty-five thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 4:3

  from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who enters the ranks to do work in the tent of meeting.

• Numbers 4:23

  from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old you shall count them, everyone who enters to serve in the ranks, to do the service in the tent of meeting.

• Numbers 4:30

  from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old you shall count them, everyone who enters the ranks to do the service of the tent of meeting.

• Numbers 4:35

  from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the ranks for the service in the tent of meeting;

• Numbers 4:39

  from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the ranks for the service in the tent of meeting,

• Numbers 4:40

  those of them counted, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty.

• Numbers 4:43

  from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the ranks for the service in the tent of meeting,

• Numbers 4:47

  from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered to do the work of service and the work of carrying loads in the tent of meeting,

And 132 more times.