'Three' in the Bible

Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and entertained us three days courteously.

And after three months we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose sign was The Twin Brothers.

And touching at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.

And from thence the brethren, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns; whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.

And it came to pass, that after three days he called together those that were the chief of the Jews: and when they were come together, he said unto them, I, brethren, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, yet was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans:

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

If any man speaketh in a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most three, and that in turn; and let one interpret:

And let the prophets speak by two or three, and let the others discern.

This is the third time I am coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word established.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and tarried with him fifteen days.

Against an elder receive not an accusation, except at the mouth of two or three witnesses.

A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses:

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a goodly child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.

For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one.

And I heard as it were a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A measure of wheat for a shilling, and three measures of barley for a shilling; and the oil and the wine hurt thou not.

And I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a great voice, Woe, woe, woe, for them that dwell on the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, who are yet to sound.

By these three plagues was the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which proceeded out of their mouths.

And from among the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations do men look upon their dead bodies three days and a half, and suffer not their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

And after the three days and a half the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them that beheld them.

And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as it were frogs:

And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

on the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.