שְׁלִישִׁי
shᵉlîyshîy · shel-ee-shee'
third; feminine athird (part); by extension, a third (day, year or time); specifically, a third-story cell)
Lexicon
Derivation: ordinal from H7969 (שָׁלוֹשׁ);
third; feminine athird (part); by extension, a third (day, year or time); specifically, a third-story cell)
- third
- feminine athird (part)
- by extension, a third (day, year or time)
- specifically, a third-story cell)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: third (part, rank, time), three (years old).
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › authority, the one who leads › the hand that works › to consume, to destroy › the hand that works
To consume, to destroy of authority, the one who leads of the hand that works that works to consume, to destroy of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שְׁלִישִׁי above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
107 occurrences · 107 OT · 0 NT · 56 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the third21 · 24%
- on the third11 · 13%
- and the third11 · 13%
- a third part7 · 8%
- and a third part7 · 8%
- in the third6 · 7%
- of the third3 · 3%
- and it came to pass on the third2 · 2%
- and it came to pass the third2 · 2%
- for the third2 · 2%
- of three years old2 · 2%
- were the third1 · 1%
- and third1 · 1%
- then on the third1 · 1%
- unto them the third1 · 1%
- against the third1 · 1%
- until the third1 · 1%
- in the third rank1 · 1%
- with the third1 · 1%
- himself with it on the third1 · 1%
- not himself the third1 · 1%
- and on the third1 · 1%
- in their third1 · 1%
- the third time1 · 1%
- unto the third1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.