שְׁלֹשִׁים sheloshim

Hebrew word for “thirty” · Strong’s H7970 · used 172 times in 162 verses

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Meaning

thirty, thirtieth; Aramaic equivalent: te.la.tin (תְּלָתִין "thirty" H8533)

How it is translated

Glosses given for sheloshim in context, with how often each is used:

• thirty 162
• about thirty 4
• will be thirty 2
• among the thirty 2
• thirty warriors 1
• thirty cubits 1

Where it is used

Also in 8 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 7 (13), Numbers 4 (8), Numbers 31 (8), Genesis 11 (7), Nehemiah 7 (6), Ezra 2 (5), Judges 14 (4), 2 Samuel 23 (4), Genesis 5 (3), Exodus 6 (3)

Forms

• שׁלשׁים 105
• ושׁלשׁים 48
• בשׁלשׁים 5
• כשׁלשׁים 4
• השׁלשׁים 4
• שׁלושׁים 3
• השׁלושׁים 2
• מהשׁלשׁים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with sheloshim more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 58
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 57
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 40
• שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 36
• שֶׁבַע sheva “seven” 26
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 23
• שָׁלֹשׁ shalosh “three” 24
• שֶׁקֶל sheqel “shekel” 16
• קְעָרָה qearah “dish” 13
• מִזְרָק mizraq “bowl” 14
• שֵׁשׁ shesh “six” 19
• מָלַךְ malakh “to reign” 19

Key verses

The verses using sheloshim that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 47:9 — And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been,…
• Exodus 6:16 — And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred…
• Numbers 4:3 — From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
• Numbers 7:13 — And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the…
• Deuteronomy 2:14 — And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of…
• Judges 14:12 — And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then…
• 1 Samuel 4:10 — And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel…
• 1 Samuel 13:5 — And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on…
• 1 Kings 20:1 — And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and…
• 2 Chronicles 34:1 — Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
• Nehemiah 7:70 — And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty…
• Ezekiel 1:1 — Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.