שָׁלֹשׁ
šālōš
a three
Strong's H7969NounHebrewTWOT 2403a

שָׁלֹשׁ (šālōš) is a Hebrew noun meaning a three. It appears 431 times in 25 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H7969).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2403a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 2403a)a three, triad; third, thrice; fork, often, oftentimes, thirteen, thirteenth
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

שָׁלֹשׁ noun, masculine: a three, triad

Strong's H7969 שָׁלוֹשׁ: three; occasionally (ordinal) third, or (multiple) thrice
KJV:fork, often(-times), third, thir(-teen, -teenth), three, thrice. Compare H7991.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 2403: שָׁלַשׁ šālaš — do a third time, divide into three parts; three years old; be, make, triplicate; do the third time, three, threefold

See it in Scripture

Genesis 5:22Exodus 2:2Leviticus 12:4

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