Strong's Hebrew · H8027
H8027 shâlash
שָׁלַשׁ
shaw-lash'
to do three
shâlash appears 9 times in Scripture, in Genesis, Deuteronomy, 1 Samuel, 1 Kings, Ecclesiastes and Ezekiel. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to be (causatively, make) triplicate (by restoration, in portions, strands, days or years)
In the King James Version
do the third time, (divide into, stay) three (days, -fold, parts, years old).
Derivation
a primitive root perhaps originally to intensify, i.e. treble; but apparently used only as denominative from H7969 (שָׁלוֹשׁ),
Appears 9 times in Scripture
“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.”
“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.”
“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.””
“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.”
“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.”
“And though one may be overpowered, two can resist. Moreover, a cord of three strands is not quickly broken.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
