Thirty
שְׁלֹשִׁיםStrong’s H7970sheloshim (she-lo-shim)
Appears in 163 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sheloshim is the Hebrew word usually translated “thirty”, “about thirty” and “among the thirty”. It appears in 163 verses of the Old Testament.
“Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.”
Meaning
- Thirty, thirtieth
How it's translated
- thirty 109
- and thirty 48
- the thirty 6
- about thirty 4
- in thirty 3
- among the thirty 2
- from the thirty 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 37
- Genesis 17
- 1 Kings 14
- 1 Chronicles 13
- 2 Chronicles 11
- Exodus 9
20 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 11:12In contextAnd I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
- Zechariah 11:13In contextAnd the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
- Genesis 5:3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
- Genesis 5:5And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
- Genesis 5:16And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 6:15And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
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Hebrew dictionary
שְׁלֹשִׁים sheloshim · thirty
thirty, thirtieth Aramaic equivalent: te.la.tin (תְּלָתִין "thirty" H8533)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thirty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THIRTY, adjective
thur'ty. Thrice ten; ten three times repeated; or twenty and ten. The month of June consists of thirty days. Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.