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Hebrew noun · H8032

שִׁלְשׁוֹם

shilshomshil-shome'

three days ago

24 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: shilshôwm

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8032is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 12
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H8032

trebly, i.e. (in time) day before yesterday

The King James renders it: [phrase] before (that time, -time), excellent things (from the margin), [phrase] heretofore, three days, [phrase] time past.

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

shilshom is rendered "three days ago". It stands 24 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:2And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.
  • The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.

The first use

And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.

Genesis 31:2שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם׃

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Six of the word's twenty-four uses are in Exodus.

The other 30 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • three days ago18
  • third day5
  • from three days ago1

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.

שִׁלֵּשׁshilleshthirdUses5
שִׁלְטוֹןshiltonpowerUses2
שִׁלְטוֹןshiltongovernorUses2
שִׁלֵּםshillemrecompenseUses1
שִׁלְיָהshilyahafterbirthUses1
שִׁלֻּחָהshilluchahshootUses1
שִׁלֻּמָהshillumahrecompenseUses1
שִׁלֵּמִיShillemiShillemiteUses1

The words it stands beside

All 24, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

12 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

  • שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם׃5
  • שִׁלְשֹׁ֔ם4
  • שִׁלְשׁ֔וֹם2
  • שִׁלְשׁ֗וֹם2
  • שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם׃ ס2
  • שִׁלְשֹׁ֑ם2
  • שִׁלְשֹֽׁם׃2
  • מִשִּׁלְשֹׁ֔ם1
  • שִׁלְשׁ֑וֹם1
  • שִׁלְשׁ֖וֹם1
  • שִׁלְשֹׁם֙1
  • שִׁלְשֹׁ֗ם1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular23HNcmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa

Genesis

two uses
  • And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.

    Genesis 31:2

    • שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם׃shilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago
  • and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.

    Genesis 31:5

    • שִׁלְשֹׁ֑םshilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago

Exodus

six uses
  • “Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”

    Exodus 4:10

    • מִשִּׁלְשֹׁ֔םmishilshompreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from three days ago
  • “You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.

    Exodus 5:7

    • שִׁלְשֹׁ֑םshilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago
  • But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

    Exodus 5:8

    • שִׁלְשֹׁם֙shilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago
  • Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”

    Exodus 5:14

    • שִׁלְשֹׁ֔םshilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago
  • But if the ox has a habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, then the ox must be stoned and its owner must also be put to death.

    Exodus 21:29

    • שִׁלְשֹׁ֗םshilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago
  • But if it was known that the ox had a habit of goring, yet its owner failed to restrain it, he shall pay full compensation, ox for ox, and the dead animal will be his.

    Exodus 21:36

    • שִׁלְשֹׁ֔םshilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago

Deuteronomy

three uses
  • to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:

    Deuteronomy 4:42

    • שִׁלְשׁ֑וֹםshilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: third day
  • Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:

    Deuteronomy 19:4

    • שִׁלְשֹֽׁם׃shilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: third day
  • Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in a rage, overtake him if the distance is great, and strike him dead though he did not deserve to die, since he did not intend any harm.

    Deuteronomy 19:6

    • שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם׃shilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: third day

Joshua

three uses
  • But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between yourselves and the ark. Do not go near it, so that you can see the way to go, since you have never traveled this way before.”

    Joshua 3:4

    • שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם׃ סshilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago
  • When the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up out of the Jordan and their feet touched the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their course and overflowed all the banks as before.

    Joshua 4:18

    • שִׁלְשׁ֖וֹםshilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago
  • Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.

    Joshua 20:5

    • שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם׃shilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: third day

Ruth

one use
  • Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.

    Ruth 2:11

    • שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם׃shilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago

1 Samuel

five uses
  • the Philistines were afraid. “The gods have entered their camp!” they said. “Woe to us, for nothing like this has happened before.

    1 Samuel 4:7

    • שִׁלְשֹֽׁם׃shilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago
  • All those who had formerly known Saul and saw him prophesying with the prophets asked one another, “What has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”

    1 Samuel 10:11

    • שִׁלְשׁ֔וֹםshilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago
  • And the Hebrews who had previously gone up into the surrounding camps of the Philistines now went over to the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

    1 Samuel 14:21

    • שִׁלְשׁ֔וֹםshilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago
  • So Jonathan summoned David and told him all these things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul to serve him as he had before.

    1 Samuel 19:7

    • שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם׃ סshilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago
  • David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the equipment of the young men is holy, as it is even on common missions, and all the more at this time.”

    1 Samuel 21:5

    • שִׁלְשֹׁ֔םshilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago

2 Samuel

two uses
  • Now Abner conferred with the elders of Israel and said, “In the past you sought David as your king.

    2 Samuel 3:17

    • שִׁלְשֹׁ֔םshilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: third day
  • Even in times past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them back. And to you the LORD said, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be ruler over them.’”

    2 Samuel 5:2

    • שִׁלְשׁ֗וֹםshilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago

2 Kings

one use
  • So the LORD gave Israel a deliverer, and they escaped the power of the Arameans. Then the people of Israel lived in their own homes as they had before.

    2 Kings 13:5

    • שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם׃shilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago

1 Chronicles

one use
  • Even in times past, while Saul was king, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them back. And the LORD your God said, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be ruler over them.’”

    1 Chronicles 11:2

    • שִׁלְשׁ֗וֹםshilshomnoun · masculine singulartagged: three days ago

The letters

Gematria 676· 1,236 mispar gadol

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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