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2 Chronicles 23:5
“And a third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the Lord.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H7992 · Hebrew
- Definition
- third; feminine athird (part); by extension, a third (day, year or time); specifically, a third-story cell)
- Derivation
- ordinal from H7969 (שָׁלוֹשׁ);
- KJV renderings
- third (part, rank, time), three (years old).
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- הַ — particle (definite article)
- שְּׁלִשִׁית֙ — common noun, feminine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 108 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 1:13Genesis 2:14Genesis 6:16Genesis 22:4Genesis 31:22
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שְׁלִישִׁי here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.