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:
Ezekiel 41:16: "windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, ceiled with wood"
Ezekiel 41:22: "The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits;"
Ezekiel 48:31: "the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate"
Ezekiel 48:32: "thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph,"
Ezekiel 48:33: "and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon,"
Ezekiel 48:34: "thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad,"
Daniel 1:1: " In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar"
Daniel 1:5: "of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three"
Daniel 8:1: " In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto"
Daniel 8:14: "unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary"
Daniel 10:1: " In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel,"
Daniel 10:2: "Daniel was mourning three full weeks."
Daniel 10:3: "neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled."
Daniel 11:2: "Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer"
Daniel 12:12: "is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days."
Amos 1:3: "saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four,"
Amos 1:6: "saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four,"
Amos 1:9: "saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four,"
Amos 1:11: "saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four,"
Amos 1:13: "saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for"
Amos 2:1: "saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four,"
Amos 2:4: "saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four,"
Amos 2:6: "saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four,"
Amos 4:4: "your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:"
Amos 4:7: "the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon"
Amos 4:8: "So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink"
Jonah 1:17: "was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights."
Jonah 1:17: "of the fish three days and three nights."
Jonah 3:3: "an exceeding great city of three days' journey."
Zechariah 11:8: " Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed"
