26 occurrences in 13 translations

'Three' in the Bible

And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.

And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;

And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.

And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?

Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.

Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

And the Philistines came together to make war on Israel, three thousand war-carriages and six thousand horsemen and an army of people like the sands of the sea in number: they came up and took up their position in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.

And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:

The charge was one pin for plows, mattocks, three pronged forks, and axes, or for setting the goads.

And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

As the troops were coming back, when David was returning from killing the Philistine, the women came out from all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul, singing and dancing with tambourines, with shouts of joy, and with three-stringed instruments.

And when thou hast stayed three days, 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.

And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.

And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.

Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.

And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.

And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

The Egyptian replied, "I'm a young Egyptian man, the slave of an Amalekite man. My master abandoned me, because I got sick three days ago. We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory that belongs to Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we set Ziklag on fire."

So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁלשׁ 
Shalash 
Usage: 9

שׁלישׁי 
Sh@liyshiy 
Usage: 108

ἑβδομήκοντα 
hebdomekonta 
Usage: 5

אדּר 
'iddar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

אדשׁ 
'adash 
Usage: 0

אסף 
'acuph 
Usage: 3

ארבּעה ארבּע 
'arba` 
Usage: 318

גּרן 
Goren 
Usage: 36

דּישׁ דּושׁ דּוּשׁ 
Duwsh 
Usage: 14

דּישׁ 
Dayish 
Usage: 1

דּרך 
Darak 
Usage: 63

חבט 
Chabat 
Usage: 5

חוּט 
Chuwt 
Usage: 7

חרץ חרוּץ 
Charuwts 
Usage: 18

מדשּׁה 
M@dushshah 
Usage: 1

מרג מורג 
Mowrag 
Usage: 3

מפתּן 
Miphtan 
Usage: 8

סף 
Caph 
Usage: 32

סקל 
Caqal 
Usage: 22

פּתיל 
Pathiyl 
Usage: 11

שׁבעים 
Shib`iym 
Usage: 91

שׁלשׁה שׁלושׁה שׁלשׁ שׁלושׁ 
Shalowsh 
Usage: 430

שׁני 
Shaniy 
Usage: 42

שׁשּׁה שׁשׁ 
Shesh 
Usage: 215

שׁשּׁים 
Shishshiym 
Usage: 59

שׁתּין 
Shittiyn (Aramaic) 
Usage: 4

תּלתא תּלתה תּלת 
T@lath (Aramaic) 
Usage: 11

ἀλοάω 
Aloao 
Usage: 3

ἀπειλέω 
Apeileo 
Usage: 2

ἀπειλή 
Apeile 
Usage: 4

ἑξήκοντα 
hexekonta 
Usage: 4

πέντε 
Pente 
Usage: 20

προσαπειλέω 
Prosapeileo 
Usage: 1

τρεῖς τρία 
Treis 
Usage: 51

τριακόσιοι 
Triakosioi 
Usage: 2

τριετία 
Trietia 
Usage: 1

τρίμηνον 
Trimenon 
Usage: 1

τρίς 
Tris 
Usage: 7

τρισχίλιοι 
Trischilioi 
Usage: 1

χξς 
Chi xi stigma 
Usage: 1

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