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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 Kings 4:32: "And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five."
1 Kings 5:16: "of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand and three"
1 Kings 5:16: "which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled"
1 Kings 6:36: "the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar"
1 Kings 7:1: "But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished"
1 Kings 7:4: "And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks."
1 Kings 7:4: "and light was against light in three ranks."
1 Kings 7:5: "and light was against light in three ranks."
1 Kings 7:12: "And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar"
1 Kings 7:25: "upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three"
1 Kings 7:25: "oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three"
1 Kings 7:25: "toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three"
1 Kings 7:25: "toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea"
1 Kings 7:27: "and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height"
1 Kings 9:25: " And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon"
1 Kings 10:17: " And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold"
1 Kings 10:17: "shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to"
1 Kings 10:22: "the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish,"
1 Kings 11:3: "hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away"
1 Kings 12:5: "unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people"
1 Kings 15:2: " Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter"
1 Kings 15:28: " Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned"
1 Kings 15:33: " In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah"
1 Kings 17:21: "And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD,"
1 Kings 22:1: "And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel."
2 Kings 2:17: "therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not."
2 Kings 3:10: "the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!"
2 Kings 3:13: "the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab."
2 Kings 9:32: "And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs."
2 Kings 12:6: "But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not"
2 Kings 13:1: " In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah"
2 Kings 13:18: "Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed."
2 Kings 13:19: "thou shalt smite Syria but thrice."
2 Kings 13:25: "out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash"
2 Kings 17:5: "and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years."
2 Kings 18:1: "Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel,"
2 Kings 18:10: "And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah,"
2 Kings 18:14: "unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver"
2 Kings 23:31: "old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name"
2 Kings 23:31: "Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three"
2 Kings 24:1: "and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled"
2 Kings 24:8: "old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name"
2 Kings 25:17: "upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates"
2 Kings 25:18: "and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:"
1 Chronicles 2:3: "Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua"
1 Chronicles 2:16: "Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three."
1 Chronicles 2:22: "Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead."
1 Chronicles 3:4: "and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years."
1 Chronicles 3:23: "Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three."
1 Chronicles 6:60: "with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities."









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