Hebrew verb · H8027
שָׁלַשׁ
shalashshaw-lash'
to do three
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâlash
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8027is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8027
to be (causatively, make) triplicate (by restoration, in portions, strands, days or years)
The King James renders it: do the third time, (divide into, stay) three (days, -fold, parts, years old).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
shalash is rendered "to do three". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Three of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 15:9And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
Genesis 15:9מְשֻׁלֶּ֔שֶׁת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's nine uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- three years old3
- and they did a third time1
- and you will divide into three1
- and you will do three times1
- divided into three parts1
- do a third time1
- the threefold1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁלַח | shalach | to send: depart | Uses845 |
| שָׁלוֹשׁ | shalosh | three | Uses432 |
| שָׁלַךְ | shalak | to throw | Uses125 |
| שָׁלַם | shalam | to complete | Uses116 |
| שָׁלָל | shalal | spoil | Uses73 |
| שָׁלֵם | shalem | complete | Uses28 |
| שָׁלַף | shalaph | to draw | Uses25 |
| שָׁלִישׁ | shalish | third | Uses20 |
| שָׁלַל | shalal | to take | Uses16 |
| שָׁלַט | shalat | to domineer | Uses8 |
| שָׁלָךְ | shalak | cormorant | Uses2 |
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְשִׁלַּשְׁתָּ֙2
- הַֽמְשֻׁלָּ֔שׁ1
- וַיְשַׁלֵּֽשׁוּ׃1
- מְשֻׁלָּ֑שׁ1
- מְשֻׁלָּשׁוֹת֙1
- מְשֻׁלֶּ֔שֶׁת1
- מְשֻׁלֶּ֖שֶׁת1
- שַׁלֵּ֖שׁוּ1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vpq2ms2Hc/Vpq2ms
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HVPsfsc
- Hc/Vpw3mp1Hc/Vpw3mp
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular1HTd/VPsmsa
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine plural1HVPsfpa
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular1HVPsmsa
- verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HVpv2mp
Genesis
three uses
And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
- מְשֻׁלֶּ֔שֶׁתmeshuleshetverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: three years old
- מְשֻׁלֶּ֖שֶׁתmeshuleshetverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: three years old
- מְשֻׁלָּ֑שׁmeshulashverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: three years old
Deuteronomy
one use
You are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities.
- וְשִׁלַּשְׁתָּ֙veshilashtaHc/Vpq2mstagged: and you will divide into three
1 Samuel
one use
When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.
- וְשִׁלַּשְׁתָּ֙veshilashtaHc/Vpq2mstagged: and you will do three times
1 Kings
two uses
and said, “Fill four waterpots and pour the water on the offering and on the wood.” “Do it a second time,” he said, and they did it a second time. “Do it a third time,” he said, and they did it a third time.
- שַׁלֵּ֖שׁוּshaleshuverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: do a third time
- וַיְשַׁלֵּֽשׁוּ׃vayshaleshuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they did a third time
Ecclesiastes
one use
And though one may be overpowered, two can resist. Moreover, a cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
- הַֽמְשֻׁלָּ֔שׁhamshulashthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: the threefold
Ezekiel
one use
For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.
- מְשֻׁלָּשׁוֹת֙meshulashotverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: divided into three parts
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.