'Three' in the Bible

And Mary stayed with her about three months, and returned to her home.

And it happened that after three days they found him in the temple [courts], sitting in the midst of the teachers and listening to them and asking them [questions].

But in truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three years and six months while a great famine took place over all the land.

And it happened that as they were going away from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good [for] us to be here. And let us make three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah," not knowing what he was saying.

Which of these three do you suppose became a neighbor of the man who fell among the robbers?"

And he said to them, "Who of you will have a friend, and will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves,

For from now on there will be five in one household, divided three against two and two against three.

So he said to the gardener, 'Behold, {for three years} I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and did not find [any]. Cut it down! Why should it even exhaust the soil?'

It is like yeast that a woman took [and] hid in three measures of wheat flour until the whole [batch] was leavened."

And he said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times [that you] know me!"

And the Lord turned around [and] looked intently at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."