Hebrew adjective · H8029
שִׁלֵּשׁ
shilleshshil-laysh'
third
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shillêsh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8029is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8029
a descendant of the third degree, i.e. great grandchild
The King James renders it: third (generation).
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
shillesh is rendered "third". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 50:23He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.
Genesis 50:23שִׁלֵּשִׁ֑ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a third generation5
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.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- שִׁלֵּשִׁ֥ים2
- שִׁלֵּשִׁ֖ים2
- שִׁלֵּשִׁ֑ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural5HNcmpa
Genesis
one use
He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.
- שִׁלֵּשִׁ֑יםshileshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: a third generation
Exodus
two uses
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
- שִׁלֵּשִׁ֥יםshileshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: a third generation
maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
- שִׁלֵּשִׁ֖יםshileshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: a third generation
Numbers
one use
‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
- שִׁלֵּשִׁ֖יםshileshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: a third generation
Deuteronomy
one use
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
- שִׁלֵּשִׁ֥יםshileshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: a third generation
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.
