Strong's #7969: shalowsh (pronounced shaw-loshe')
or shalosh {shaw-loshe'}; masculine shlowshah {shel-o-shaw'}; or shloshah {shel-o-shaw'}; a primitive number; three; occasionally (ordinal) third, or (multipl.) thrice:--+ fork, + often(-times), third, thir(-teen, -teenth), three, + thrice. Compare 7991.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׁׁ / ׁׁ / ׁׁ / ׁׁ
shâlôsh / shelôshâh
1) three, triad
1a) 3, 300, third
Part of Speech: noun masculine or feminine
Relation: a primitive number
Usage:
This word is used 430 times:
1 Samuel 1:24: "she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour,"
1 Samuel 2:13: "while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;"
1 Samuel 2:21: "Hannah, so that she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the child"
1 Samuel 9:20: "And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not"
1 Samuel 10:3: "the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to"
1 Samuel 10:3: "God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying"
1 Samuel 10:3: "three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another"
1 Samuel 11:8: "the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah"
1 Samuel 11:11: "that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst"
1 Samuel 13:2: "Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were"
1 Samuel 13:17: "came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company"
1 Samuel 13:21: "a file for the mattocks, and for the colters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen"
1 Samuel 17:13: " And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul"
1 Samuel 17:13: "and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went"
1 Samuel 17:14: "And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul."
1 Samuel 20:20: "And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark."
1 Samuel 20:41: "and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one"
1 Samuel 24:2: "Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all"
1 Samuel 25:2: "and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats:"
1 Samuel 26:2: "to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel"
1 Samuel 30:12: "nor drunk any water, three days and three nights."
1 Samuel 30:12: "any water, three days and three nights."
1 Samuel 30:13: "servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days"
1 Samuel 31:6: "So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armorbearer, and all"
1 Samuel 31:8: "the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount"
2 Samuel 2:18: "And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel:"
2 Samuel 2:31: "of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore"
2 Samuel 5:5: "and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel"
2 Samuel 6:11: "in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed"
2 Samuel 13:38: "to Geshur, and was there three years."
2 Samuel 14:27: "And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar:"
2 Samuel 18:14: "thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart"
2 Samuel 20:4: "me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present."
2 Samuel 21:1: "a famine in the days of David three years, year after year;"
2 Samuel 21:16: "of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he"
2 Samuel 23:9: "the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David,"
2 Samuel 23:13: " And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in"
2 Samuel 23:16: " And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well"
2 Samuel 23:17: "not drink it. These things did these three mighty men."
2 Samuel 23:18: "his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three."
2 Samuel 23:18: "hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three."
2 Samuel 23:19: "Was he not most honorable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not"
2 Samuel 23:19: "howbeit he attained not unto the first three."
2 Samuel 23:22: "the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men."
2 Samuel 23:23: "but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard."
2 Samuel 24:12: "the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of"
2 Samuel 24:13: "unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they"
2 Samuel 24:13: "pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now"
1 Kings 2:11: "reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem."
1 Kings 2:39: "And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei"
