Third
תְּלַתStrong’s H8531telat (te-lat)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Telat is the Aramaic word usually translated “third the”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.”
Meaning
- Third, one of three, a third part
How it's translated
- and third the 1
- third the 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
Aramaic dictionary
תְּלַת telat · third
third, one of three, a third part Aramaic of she.li.shi (שְׁלִישִׁי "third" H7992)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.