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:
Nehemiah 7:67: "and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven:"
Esther 1:3: " In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants;"
Esther 3:12: "Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month,"
Esther 3:13: "little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth"
Esther 4:16: "eat nor drink three days, night or day: I"
Esther 8:9: "that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that"
Esther 8:12: "the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month,"
Esther 9:1: "month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when"
Esther 9:15: "also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan;"
Esther 9:17: " On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested"
Esther 9:18: "that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth"
Job 1:2: "And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters."
Job 1:3: "seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred"
Job 1:4: "every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink"
Job 1:17: "and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels,"
Job 2:11: "Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil"
Job 32:1: "So these three men ceased to answer Job,"
Job 32:3: " Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no"
Job 32:5: "there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled."
Job 33:29: "these things worketh God oftentimes with man,"
Job 42:13: "He had also seven sons and three daughters."
Proverbs 30:15: "daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four"
Proverbs 30:18: " There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:"
Proverbs 30:21: "For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot"
Proverbs 30:29: " There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:"
Isaiah 16:14: "the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory"
Isaiah 17:6: "in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four"
Isaiah 20:3: "hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon"
Jeremiah 1:2: "of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign."
Jeremiah 25:3: "From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king"
Jeremiah 25:3: "even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word"
Jeremiah 36:23: "And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife,"
Jeremiah 52:24: "and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:"
Jeremiah 52:28: "carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:"
Jeremiah 52:28: "three thousand Jews and three and twenty:"
Jeremiah 52:30: " In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive"
Ezekiel 4:5: "of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear"
Ezekiel 4:9: "shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat"
Ezekiel 14:14: "Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in"
Ezekiel 14:16: "Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord"
Ezekiel 14:18: "Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord"
Ezekiel 40:10: "And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three"
Ezekiel 40:10: "eastward were three on this side, and three on that side;"
Ezekiel 40:10: "were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one"
Ezekiel 40:11: "cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits."
Ezekiel 40:21: "And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts"
Ezekiel 40:21: "And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts"
Ezekiel 40:48: "cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side,"
Ezekiel 40:48: "and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits"
Ezekiel 41:6: "And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered"
