Third
שִׁלֵּשׁStrong’s H8029shillesh (shil-lesh)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shillesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “third generation”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.”
Meaning
- Pertaining to the third, third (generation)
How it's translated
- a third generation 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
- Deuteronomy 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
- Exodus 34:7Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
- Numbers 14:18The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
- Deuteronomy 5:9Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁלֵּשׁ shillesh · third
pertaining to the third, third (generation)
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.