Third
τρίτοςStrong’s G5154tritos
Appears in 47 verses of the New Testament
In short
Tritos is the Greek word usually translated “third” and “third time”. It appears in 47 verses of the New Testament.
“From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.”
Meaning
Usually translated “third” and “third time”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- third 33
- a third 16
- third time 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 15
- Luke 10
- Matthew 7
- Acts 4
- Mark 3
- John 3
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 17:23And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.
- Matthew 20:3And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
- Matthew 20:19And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
- Matthew 22:26Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
- Matthew 26:44And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
- Matthew 27:64Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
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Greek dictionary
τρίτος tritos · third
τρίτος, -η, -ον the third: Mat.22:26, Mrk.12:21 15:25, Luk.24:21, Act.2:15, al.; τῇ τ. ἡμέρᾳ (i.e. the next day but one: Xen., al.; see Field, Notes, 11 ff.), Mat.16:21, Luk.24:46, al.; substantively, accusative masc., τρίτον, a third (servant), Luk.20:12; neut., τὸ τ., with genitive, the third part of: Rev.8:7-12 9:15, 18 12:4. As adv., τὸ τ., the third time: Mrk.14:41, Jhn.21:17; anarth., τρίτον, a third time, Luk.23:22, Jhn.21:14, 2Co.12:14 13:1; in enumerations, thirdly, 1Co.12:28; ἐκ τ., a third time, Mat.26:44 (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “third” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THIRD, adjective
thurd. [Latin tertius.] The first after the second; the ordinal of three. The third hour in the day among the ancients, was nine o'clock in the morning.
All definitions and other forms of “third”
THIRD, noun
thurd. The third part of any thing. A man takes land and tills it for one third of the produce; the owner taking two thirds.
- The sixtieth part of a second of time.
- In music, an interval containing three diatonic sounds; the major composed to two tones, called by the Greeks ditone, and the minor called hemiditone, consisting of a tone and a half.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.