Shâlîysh — H7991

Definition

masculine noun

a triple, i.e. (as a musical instrument) a triangle (or perhaps rather threestringed lute); also (as an indefinite, great quantity) a three-fold measure (perhaps a treble ephah); also (as an officer) a general of the third rank (upward, i.e. the highest)

1. third part
1. name of a measure
2. a musical instrument
1. maybe three-stringed, triangular shape, or three-barred
2. perhaps a sistrum or triangle
3. shield carrier, adjutant, officer, captain

Usually translated as

lord, captain, measure, instrument of musick, prince, three

Origin

or shâlôwsh; (1 Chronicles 11:11; 1 Chronicles 12:18), or shâlôsh; (2 Samuel 23:13), from H7969

• Derived from Shâlôwsh (H7969)

Greek equivalents

• dynatós (G1415)
• kýmbalon (G2950)
• métron (G3358)

Occurrences

Shâlîysh occurs 20 times in 19 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (2), 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (1), 2 Kings (6), 1 Chronicles (2), 2 Chronicles (1), Psalms (1), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (1), Ezekiel (2)

• Exodus 14:7 — And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains (וְשָׁלִשִׁ֖ם) over every one of them.
• Exodus 15:4 — Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains (שָֽׁלִשָׁ֖יו) also are drowned in the Red sea.
• 1 Samuel 18:6 — And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and (וּבְשָׁלִשִֽׁים) with instruments of musick.
• 2 Samuel 23:8 — These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains (הַשָּׁלִשִׁ֗י); the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
• 1 Kings 9:22 — But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains (וְשָׁלִשָׁ֔יו), and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
• 2 Kings 7:2 — Then a lord (הַשָּׁלִ֡ישׁ) on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
• 2 Kings 7:17 — And the king appointed the lord (הַשָּׁלִ֜ישׁ) on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
• 2 Kings 7:19 — And that lord (הַשָּׁלִ֜ישׁ) answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
• 2 Kings 9:25 — Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain (שָֽׁלִשׁ֔וֹ), Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
• 2 Kings 10:25 — And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains (וְלַשָּׁלִשִׁ֜ים), Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
• 2 Kings 10:25 — And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains (וְהַשָּׁ֣לִשִׁ֔ים) cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
• 2 Kings 15:25 — But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain (שָׁלִישׁ֗וֹ) of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
• 1 Chronicles 11:11 — And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains (הַשָּׁ֣לִישִׁ֔ים): he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.
• 1 Chronicles 12:18 — Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains (הַשָּׁלִישִׁים֒), and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
• 2 Chronicles 8:9 — But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains (שָׁלִישָׁ֔יו), and captains of his chariots and horsemen.
• Psalms 80:5 — Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure (שָׁלִֽישׁ).
• Proverbs 22:20 — Have not I written to thee excellent things (שָׁלִישִׁ֑ים) in counsels and knowledge,
• Isaiah 40:12 — Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure (בַּשָּׁלִ֖שׁ), and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
• Ezekiel 23:15 — Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes (שָׁלִשִׁ֖ים) to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
• Ezekiel 23:23 — The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords (שָֽׁלִשִׁים֙) and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.