Original Language Studio
2 Chronicles 9:16
“And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H7969 · Hebrew
- Definition
- three; occasionally (ordinal) third, or (multiple) thrice
- Derivation
- or שָׁלֹשׁ; masculine שְׁלוֹשָׁה; or שְׁלֹשָׁה; a primitive number;
- KJV renderings
- [phrase] fork, [phrase] often(-times), third, thir(-teen, -teenth), three, [phrase] thrice. Compare H7991 (שָׁלִישׁ).
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- שְׁלֹשׁ — cardinal number, feminine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 431 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 5:22Genesis 5:23Genesis 6:10Genesis 6:15Genesis 7:13
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 שָׁלוֹשׁ 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.