Strong's #8027: shalash (pronounced shaw-lash')

a primitive root perhaps originally to intensify, i.e. treble; but apparently used only as denominative from 7969, to be (causatively, make) triplicate (by restoration, in portions, strands, days or years):--do the third time, (divide into, stay) three (days, - fold, parts, years old).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁׁ

shâlash

1) to do a third time, do three times, divide in three parts

1a) (Piel) to do a third time, divide into three parts

1b) (Pual) to be three years of age, be threefold

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root perhaps originally to intensify, i.e. treble

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Genesis 15:9: "unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old,"
Genesis 15:9: "me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
Genesis 15:9: "and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
Deuteronomy 19:3: "Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD"
1 Samuel 20:19: " And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself"
1 Kings 18:34: "Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time."
1 Kings 18:34: "And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time."
Ecclesiastes 4:12: "prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly"
Ezekiel 42:6: "For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore"