'Three' in the Bible

It happened that at the end of three years, two of Shimei's slaves fled to Achish, son of Maacah, the king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, "Your slaves [are] here in Gath."

He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five.

Besides the chiefs of the officers Solomon had, there were three thousand three hundred having charge over the people who were doing the work.

Then he built the inner courtyard [with] three rows of dressed stone and a row of cedar beams.

[There were] three rows of specially designed windows; [with] window to window three times.

All of the doorways and the doorframes [had] four-sided casings, with opening to opposite opening three times.

The great courtyard all around had three rows of dressed stones and a row of cedar beams; for [both] the courtyard of the inner house of Yahweh and for the porch of the house.

[The sea] was standing on twelve oxen, with three facing to the north, three facing to the west, three facing to the south, and three facing to the east. The sea [was] on top of them, with all of their hindquarters [turned] to the inside.

He made the ten stands of bronze; each stand [was] four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits in height.

Solomon sacrificed three times a year: burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar that he had built to Yahweh, and he offered incense with it before Yahweh; and so he completed the house.

Also [he made] three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went up over each of the small shields; and the king put them [into] the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

For the fleet of Tarshish belonged to the king [and was] on the sea with the fleet of Hiram; once every three years the fleet of Tarshish used to come carrying gold and silver, ivory, apes, and baboons.

He had seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart.

He said, "Go up for three days and then return to me"; so the people went away.

Three years he reigned in Jerusalem. The name of his mother [was] Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

He stretched himself out on the child three times and called to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh my God, please let the life of this child return within him."

They lived three years, and there was no war between Aram and Israel.