shalash · three years old

What it means

shalash (שָׁלַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “three years old”.

Threefold.

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. For something to be done a third time, after the second.
2. To share something out in three equal parts.
3. Having reached three years of age.
4. Made of three parts twisted together, and so stronger.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• three-year-old ×3
• Do it a third time ×1
• divide into three parts ×1
• they did it a third time ×1
• third day ×1
• threefold ×1
• were in three stories ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 15:9

  He said to him, “Bring me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

• Deuteronomy 19:3

  You shall prepare for yourself the road, and divide into three parts the territory of your land that YHWH your Elohim gives you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer may flee there.

• 1 Samuel 20:19

  And on the third day you shall go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself on the day of the deed, and stay beside the stone of Ezel.

• 1 Kings 18:34

  And he said, “Fill four jars with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.” And he said, “Do it a second time”; and they did it a second time. And he said, “Do it a third time”; and they did it a third time.

• Ecclesiastes 4:12

  And if one overpowers him, the two will stand against him; and the threefold cord is not quickly broken.

• Ezekiel 42:6

  For they were in three stories, and they did not have pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper story was reduced more than the lower ones and the middle ones from the floor.

And 3 more times.