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# שָׁלִישׁ

Biblical Hebrew

**sistrum** — used 3 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

sistrum [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5dc_5b4_5d9_5e9_5c1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] pl. שָֽׁלִשִׁים, a (three-stringed? three-barred? three-cornered?) mus. instr., perhaps a sistrum (so 𝔙), or ‘triangle’ (RVm: cf. PrinceEB iii. 3228), 1 S 18:6 (+ בְּתֻפִּים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a third of a measure (1); of a measure (1); three-stringed instruments (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 80:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.6/#tree)

הֶ֭אֱכַלְתָּם לֶ֣חֶם דִּמְעָ֑ה וַ֝תַּשְׁקֵ֗מוֹ בִּדְמָע֥וֹת שָׁלִֽישׁ׃

*Word for word:* you have.fed.them bread of.tear\[s\] and you have.made.them.drink (in) tears a.third.of.a.measure

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

[Isaiah 40:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.12/#tree)

מִֽי־מָדַ֨ד בְּשָׁעֳל֜וֹ מַ֗יִם וְשָׁמַ֙יִם֙ בַּזֶּ֣רֶת תִּכֵּ֔ן וְכָ֥ל בַּשָּׁלִ֖שׁ עֲפַ֣ר הָאָ֑רֶץ וְשָׁקַ֤ל בַּפֶּ֙לֶס֙ הָרִ֔ים וּגְבָע֖וֹת בְּמֹאזְנָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* who? has.he.measured in the.hollow of.his.hand \[the\].waters and.\[the\] heavens with (the) span has.he.marked.off? and has.he.contained? in.(the) third of.a.measure the.dust of the.earth and has.he.weighed? with (the) scale\[s\] mountains and hills with balances

*JPS 1917:* Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5dc_5b4_5d9_5e9_5c1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5dc_5b4_5d9_5e9_5c1/): 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).