sha.losh H7969

שָׁלֹשׁ (sha.losh) means “three” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

שָׁלֹשׁ Hebrew · H7969 431 tagged occurrences in 381 verses

Pronunciation guide: shaw-loshe' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H7969

שָׁלֹשׁ · sha.losh · three

1) three, triad 1a) 3, 300, third Aramaic equivalent: te.lat (תְּלָת "three" H8532)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or שָׁלֹשׁ; masculine שְׁלוֹשָׁה; or שְׁלֹשָׁה; a primitive number; three; occasionally (ordinal) third, or (multiple) thrice

KJV glosses: [phrase] fork, [phrase] often(-times), third, thir(-teen, -teenth), three, [phrase] thrice. Compare H7991 (שָׁלִישׁ).

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How translators render H7969

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
three	119
for three	23
and three	21
the three	15
in the third	8
numbered	6
and the three	5
with three	5
a three-day	4
along with the three	4
and	4
in three	4
the thirteenth	4
there will be three	4
thirteen	4
three in all	4
three-tenths of an ephah	4
are three	3
into three	3
of the three	3
of three-tenths of an ephah	3
on the thirteenth	3
so the three	3
there were three	3
among the three	2
are three things	2
every three	2
he also made three	2
one of the three	2
or three	2
the twenty-third	2
three things	2
was thirteen	2
within three	2
you three options	2
a third of a shekel	1
about three	1
against jobs three	1
along with a three-year-old	1
along with three-tenths of an ephah	1
and about three	1
and for three	1
and his three	1
and on the twenty-third day	1
and they journeyed three days	1
and when the three	1
as one of the three	1
ben-hadad three	1
but in the thirteenth	1
every three years	1
for the third	1
for those three	1
his officer	1
his three	1
in response three	1
in the thirteenth	1
in three levels	1
is the third	1
is to be	1
its three	1
of	1
of every three	1
of men	1
of the thirteen	1
of thirteen	1
of three	1
on a three-day	1
only three	1
or even three times	1
people	1
plus	1
received thirteen	1
requiring a three-day	1
select three	1
so about three	1
so they had thirteen	1
so within the three	1
sufficient for three	1
that is	1
the	1
the descendants of the three	1
the ground three	1
their three	1
then three	1
there are to be three	1
these three	1
this was done on the thirteenth	1
took thirteen	1
twenty-third	1
twenty-three	1
vvv	1
was	1
was eighty-three	1
was the thirteenth	1
was three	1
was twenty-three	1
were allotted thirteen	1
were three	1
who were three	1
with a three-pronged	1
with his three	1
with the three	1
with their three	1
you three	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
three	158
and three	71
thirteen	12
for three	11
and the three	9
of three	9
these three	8
in the third	5
the three	5
within three	5
of the three	4
on the thirteenth	4
thrice	4
were three	4
about three	3
against three	3
and his three	3
him three	3
in the three	3
in three	3
thee three	3
among the three	2
among three	2
and threescore and thirteen	2
and was there three	2
me these three	2
on this side and three	2
or three	2
the thirteenth	2
them three	2
thence the three	2
there be three	2
there three	2
thereof and three	2
though these three	2
upon the thirteenth	2
with three	2
yet three	2
after three	1
against the third	1
also against his three	1
also in the third	1
and for the forks	1
and he had three	1
and in the thirteenth	1
and it came to pass about three	1
and lo three	1
and on the three	1
and there were three	1
and they three	1
and they were three	1
and with him three	1
but let about two or three	1
by the three	1
either three	1
else three	1
even in the third	1
every three	1
for their three	1
for within three	1
from among you three	1
from his place for three	1
from the thirteenth	1
from three	1
having three	1
he and the three	1
himself three	1
in the thirteenth	1
it three	1
me because three	1
more for thee beside these three	1
not in three	1
not these three	1
now it came to pass in the third	1
now three	1
of his three	1
of it the three	1
of it three	1
of the thirteen	1
oftentimes	1
on the three	1
on their three stories	1
so these three	1
thee or that there be three	1
their three	1
them in the three	1
them into three	1
then three	1
there are three	1
thereof the three	1
thereof three	1
they three	1
those three	1
till three	1
unto me after three	1
was three	1
we beseech thee three	1
we pray thee three	1
who had three	1
with her with three	1
with him three	1
ye three	1
yet within three	1
yourselves there three	1

Verses containing H7969

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Nehemiah 7:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743;
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Nehemiah 7:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the men of Bethel and Ai, 123;
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Nehemiah 7:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the descendants of Harim, 320;
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Nehemiah 7:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the men of Jericho, 345;
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Nehemiah 7:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and the descendants of Senaah, 3,930.
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Nehemiah 7:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973;
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Nehemiah 7:60 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all.
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Nehemiah 7:66 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The whole assembly numbered 42,360,
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Nehemiah 7:67 · BSB · 1 occurrence
in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 245 male and female singers.
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Esther 1:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.
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Esther 3:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of each people, in the script of each province and the language of every people. It was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the royal signet ring.
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Esther 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
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Esther 4:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”
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Esther 8:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
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Esther 8:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The single day appointed throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
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Esther 9:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.
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Esther 9:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
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Esther 9:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.
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Esther 9:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.
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Job 1:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He had seven sons and three daughters,
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Job 1:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
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Job 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
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Job 1:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels, and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
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Job 2:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.
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Job 32:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
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Job 32:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
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Job 32:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But when he saw that the three men had no further reply, his anger was kindled.
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Job 33:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,
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Job 42:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
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Proverbs 30:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:
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Proverbs 30:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:
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Proverbs 30:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:
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Proverbs 30:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There are three things that are stately in their stride, and four that are impressive in their walk:
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Isaiah 16:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”
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Isaiah 17:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten—two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
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Isaiah 20:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD said, “Just as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush,
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Jeremiah 1:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,
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Jeremiah 25:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
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Jeremiah 36:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
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Jeremiah 52:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
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Jeremiah 52:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences
These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
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Jeremiah 52:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews. So in all, 4,600 people were taken away.
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Ezekiel 4:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For I have assigned to you 390 days, according to the number of years of their iniquity. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
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Ezekiel 4:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.
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Ezekiel 14:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.
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Ezekiel 14:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.
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Ezekiel 14:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered.
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Ezekiel 40:10 · BSB · 3 occurrences
There were three gate chambers on each side of the east gate, each with the same measurements, and the gateposts on either side also had the same measurements.
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Ezekiel 40:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he measured the width of the gateway entrance to be ten cubits, and its length was thirteen cubits.
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Ezekiel 40:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Its three gate chambers on each side, its side pillars, and its portico all had the same measurements as the first gate: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
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