שָׁלַשׁ
shâlash · shaw-lash'
to be (causatively, make) triplicate (by restoration, in portions, strands, days or years)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root perhaps originally to intensify, i.e. treble; but apparently used only as denominative from H7969 (שָׁלוֹשׁ),
to be (causatively, make) triplicate (by restoration, in portions, strands, days or years)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: do the third time, (divide into, stay) three (days, -fold, parts, 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
- 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
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › authority, the one who leads › to consume, to destroy
To consume, to destroy of authority, the one who leads that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׁלַשׁ 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
9 occurrences · 9 OT · 0 NT · 8 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of three years old3 · 33%
- into three parts1 · 11%
- and when thou hast stayed three days1 · 11%
- do it the third time1 · 11%
- and they did it the third time1 · 11%
- him; and a threefold1 · 11%
- for they were in three1 · 11%
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.