Strong H8027שָׁלַשׁ
to do three
- Transliteration
- shâlash
- Pronunciation
- shaw-lash'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root perhaps originally to {intensify} that {is} treble; but apparently used only as denominative from {H7969 } to be (causatively make) triplicate (by {restoration} in {portions} {strands} days or years): - do the third {time} (divide {into} stay) three ({days} {-fold} {parts} years old).
Detailed definition
1) to do a third time, do three times, divide in three parts
1a) (Piel) to do a third time, divide into three parts
1b) (Pual) to be three years of age, be threefold
1a) (Piel) to do a third time, divide into three parts
1b) (Pual) to be three years of age, be threefold
In the Bible
Strong H8027 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- part1
- stay1
- three1
- threefold1
- time1
- year1
First verses
- Genesis 15:9And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
- Deuteronomy 19:3Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
- 1 Samuel 20:19And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.
- 1 Kings 18:34And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
- Ecclesiastes 4:12And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
- Ezekiel 42:6For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.