To do three
שָׁלַשׁStrong’s H8027shalash (sha-lash)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shalash is the Hebrew word usually translated “three years old”, “divide into three” and “do three times”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
Meaning
- To do a third time, do three times, divide in three parts(Piel) to do a third time, divide into three parts · (Pual) to be three years of age, be threefold
How it's translated
- three years old 3
- and you will divide into three 1
- and you will do three times 1
- do a third time 1
- and they did a third time 1
- threefold 1
- divided into three parts 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- 1 Kings 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Ezekiel 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 19:3Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
- 1 Samuel 20:19And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.
- 1 Kings 18:34And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
- Ecclesiastes 4:12And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
- Ezekiel 42:6For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁלַשׁ shalash · to do three
1) to do a third time, do three times, divide in three parts 1a) (Piel) to do a third time, divide into three parts 1b) (Pual) to be three years of age, be threefold
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “threefold” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THREE'FOLD, adjective
[three and fold.]
Three-double; consisting of three; or thrice repeated, as threefold justice.
- “A threefold cord is not quickly broken” Ecclesiastes 4:12
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.