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# שְׁלִישִׁי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7992

**third** — used 105 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

third [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7992/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁלִישִׁי: adj.num. ord. third [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7992/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** m. שְׁלִישִׁית f. adj.num. ord.108 third;—יוֹם שְׁלִישִׁי Gn 1:13 + 31 times, etc. (64 times, rarely שְׁלִשִׁי); pl. שְׁלִשִׁים (third 50, set of messengers, etc.) 1 S 19:21; 2 K 1:13 + 4 times; בַּשָּׁנָה הַשְּׁלִישִׁית 1 K 18:1 + 4 times, etc. (33 times; sometimes שְׁלִשִׁית, שְׁלִשִׁת, etc.); = third part, a third 2 S 18:2(×3) + 13 times, + (cstr.) Nu 15:6 + 4 times, + שְׁלִשִׁתֵיךְ (Ges§ 911) Ez 5:12 third part of thee; = third time 1 S 3:8; also שְׁלִישִׁיָּה Is 19:24 third (on par with other two); בַּשְּׁלֵישִׁים Ez 42:3 in the thirds, i.e. third story;—שְׁלִשִׁיָּה עֶגְלַת Is 15:5; Je 48:34, v. ע׳ p. 722.—שְׁלִישִׁתָה Ez 21:19 is corrupt; Krae proposes וְשֻׁלְּשָׁה the sword shall be doubled and trebled; other conj. in Co Toy. 1 S 20:5 del. הַשּׁ׳ 𝔊 We Dr al., so v 12 2 S 23:18 read הַשְּׁלשִׁם 𝔖 We Dr al.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: third (77); \[part\] (12); (the) third (3).

## In the verses

[Genesis 1:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.1.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.1.13/#tree)

וַֽיְהִי־עֶ֥רֶב וַֽיְהִי־בֹ֖קֶר י֥וֹם שְׁלִישִֽׁי׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.was evening and it.was morning a.day third

*JPS 1917:* And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

[1 Chronicles 24:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.8/#tree)

לְחָרִם֙ הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֔י לִשְׂעֹרִ֖ים הָרְבִעִֽי׃

*Word for word:* to Harim the third to Seorim the fourth

*JPS 1917:* the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7992.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7992/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).