Definition
a primitive root perhaps originally to intensify, i.e. treble; but apparently used only as denominative from H7969, to be (causatively, make) triplicate (by restoration, in portions, strands, days or years)
Traditional renderings: do the third time, (divide into, stay) three (days, -fold, parts, years old).
Traditional renderings: do the third time, (divide into, stay) three (days, -fold, parts, years old).
Usage patterns
Occurrences
9 total
- Genesis 15:9מְשֻׁלֶּ֔שֶׁת; מְשֻׁלֶּ֖שֶׁת; מְשֻׁלָּ֑שׁ · [each] three years oldAnd the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
- Deuteronomy 19:3וְשִׁלַּשְׁתָּ֙ · and divide into three regionsYou are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities.
- 1 Samuel 20:19וְשִׁלַּשְׁתָּ֙ · [When] you have stayed three daysWhen you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.
- 1 Kings 18:34שַׁלֵּ֖שׁוּ · Do [it] a third time; וַיְשַׁלֵּֽשׁוּ׃ · and they did it a third time…and said, “Fill four waterpots and pour the water on the offering and on the wood.” “Do it a second time,” he said, and they did it a second time. “Do it a third time,” he said, and they did it a third time.
- Ecclesiastes 4:12הַֽמְשֻׁלָּ֔שׁ · of threeAnd though one may be overpowered, two can resist. Moreover, a cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
- Ezekiel 42:6מְשֻׁלָּשׁוֹת֙ · were arranged in three storiesFor they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.