Three
תְּלָתStrong’s H8532telat (te-lat)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Telat is the Aramaic word usually translated “three” and “three of them”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.”
Meaning
- Threethree (cardinal number) · third (ordinal number)
How it's translated
- three 7
- and three 3
- three of them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 9
- Ezra 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:24In contextThen Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
- Daniel 6:2In contextAnd over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.
- Daniel 6:10In contextNow when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
- Daniel 6:13In contextThen answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
- Daniel 7:5In contextAnd behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
- Daniel 7:8In contextI considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Aramaic dictionary
תְּלָת telat · three
1) three 1a) three (cardinal number) 1b) third (ordinal number)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “three” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THREE, adjective
[Latin tres.]
- Two and one.“I offer thee three things” 2 Samuel 24:12
- It is often used like other adjectives, without the noun to which it refers.
- Proverbially, a small number.
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.