Shâlash — H8027

Definition

verb

to be (causatively, make) triplicate (by restoration, in portions, strands, days or years)

1. to do a third time, do three times, divide in three parts
1. (Piel) to do a third time, divide into three parts
2. (Pual) to be three years of age, be threefold

Usually translated as

do the third time, three, threefold

Origin

a primitive root perhaps originally to intensify, i.e. treble; but apparently used only as denominative from H7969,

• Derived from Shâlôwsh (H7969)

Occurrences

Shâlash occurs 9 times in 6 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Deuteronomy (1), 1 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (1), Ecclesiastes (1), Ezekiel (1)

• Genesis 15:9 — And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old (מְשֻׁלָּ֑שׁ), and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
• Genesis 15:9 — And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old (מְשֻׁלֶּ֔שֶׁת), and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
• Genesis 15:9 — 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 (מְשֻׁלֶּ֖שֶׁת), and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
• Deuteronomy 19:3 — Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide (וְשִׁלַּשְׁתָּ֙) 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 20:19 — And when thou hast stayed three days (וְשִׁלַּשְׁתָּ֙), 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 18:34 — And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time (שַׁלֵּ֖שׁוּ). And they did it the third time.
• 1 Kings 18:34 — And 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 (וַיְשַׁלֵּֽשׁוּ).
• Ecclesiastes 4:12 — And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold (הַֽמְשֻׁלָּ֔שׁ) cord is not quickly broken.
• Ezekiel 42:6 — For they were in three (מְשֻׁלָּשׁוֹת֙) 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.