Third
שָׁלִישׁStrong’s H7991shalish (sha-lish)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shalish is the Hebrew word usually translated “officer”, “officers his” and “officer his”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.”
Meaning
- Third partname of a measure
- A musical instrumentmaybe three-stringed, triangular shape, or three-barred · perhaps a sistrum or triangle
- Shield carrier, adjutant, officer, captain
How it's translated
- the officer 3
- officers his 2
- officer his 2
- the officers 2
- icers 2
- and officers 1
- and with three-stringed instruments 1
- the three 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 6
- Exodus 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
- Ezekiel 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Samuel 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 15:4Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
- 1 Samuel 18:6And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
- 2 Samuel 23:8These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
- 1 Kings 9:22But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
- 2 Kings 7:2Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
- 2 Kings 7:17And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁלִישׁ shalish · third
1) third part 1a) name of a measure
שָׁלִישׁ shalish · triangle
1) a musical instrument 1a) maybe three-stringed, triangular shape, or three-barred 1b) perhaps a sistrum or triangle
שָׁלִישׁ shalish · officer
shield carrier, adjutant, officer, captain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.