telat · three

What it means

telat (תְּלָת) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “three”.

Also "third" (Aramaic).

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. The number three, which in these scenes counts men, supervisors or horns.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• three ×10
• third ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Ezra×2
• Daniel×9

• Ezra 6:4

  three courses of great stones and a course of new timber; and let the cost be paid from the house of the king.

• Ezra 6:15

  And this house was brought to completion by the third day of the month of Adar, which was the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

• Daniel 3:23

  And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell bound into the midst of the furnace of fire blazing.

• Daniel 3:24

  Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up in haste; he answered and said to his advisers, “Did we not throw three men bound into the midst of the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “Certainly, O king.”

• Daniel 6:2

  and over them three supervisors, of whom Daniel was one, so that these satraps might give them account, and the king might not suffer loss.

• Daniel 6:10

  And Daniel, when he knew that the writing had been signed, went into his house; and he had windows open in his upper room toward Jerusalem; and three times a day he was kneeling on his knees and praying and giving thanks before his Elah, just as he had been doing before this.

• Daniel 6:13

  Then they answered and said before the king, “Daniel, who is of the sons of the exile of Judah, has paid no attention to you, O king, or to the prohibition that you signed; but three times a day he makes his request.”

• Daniel 7:5

  And look, another beast, a second, like a bear, and it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth; and they were saying this to it: ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’

• Daniel 7:8

  I was considering the horns, and look, another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted from before it; and look, eyes like the eyes of a man were in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.

• Daniel 7:20

  and about the ten horns that were on its head, and the other that came up, and before which three fell, — that horn had eyes and a mouth speaking great things, and its appearance was greater than its companions.

• Daniel 7:24

  And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise, and another will arise after them; and he will be different from the former ones, and three kings he will bring low.