'Three' in the Bible

And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her house.

And it came to pass, after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers and hearing them and asking them questions.

But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land,

And it came to pass as they departed from him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.

Which now of these three seems to thee to have been neighbour of him who fell into the hands of the robbers?

And he said to them, Who among you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, let me have three loaves,

for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided; three shall be divided against two, and two against three:

And he said to the vinedresser, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none: cut it down; why does it also render the ground useless?

It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.