שָׁלִישׁ (šālîš) is a Hebrew noun meaning sistrum. It appears 20 times in 11 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H7991).
שָׁלִ(י)שׁ noun, masculine: third
masculine third (part, i.e. of ephah? doubtful), name of a measure
Strong's H7991 שָׁלִישׁ: a triple, i.e. (as a musical instrument) a triangle (or perhaps rather three-stringed lute); also (as an indefinite, great quantity) a three-fold measure (perhaps a treble ephah); also (as an officer) a general of the third rank (upward, i.e. the highest)
KJV:captain, instrument of musick, (great) lord, (great) measure, prince, three (from the margin).
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
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