Third
שְׁלִישִׁיStrong’s H7992shelishi (she-li-shi)
Appears in 93 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shelishi is the Hebrew word usually translated “third”, “third of” and “shelishiyah”. It appears in 93 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.”
Meaning
- Third, one third, third part, third timeordinal number
How it's translated
- third 55
- the third 20
- and the third 10
- and third 7
- third of 4
- a third 3
- shelishiyah 2
- and third of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 14
- Genesis 9
- Numbers 9
- Ezekiel 7
- 1 Samuel 6
- 1 Kings 6
21 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 13:8In contextAnd it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
- Zechariah 13:9In contextAnd I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
- Genesis 1:13And the evening and the morning were the third day.
- Genesis 2:14And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
- Genesis 6:16A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
- Genesis 22:4Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
All 93 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁלִישִׁי shelishi · third
1) third, one third, third part, third time 1a) ordinal number
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.