שָׁלִישׁ shalish

Hebrew word for “officer” · Strong’s H7991 · used 20 times in 19 verses

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Meaning

shield carrier, adjutant, officer, captain

Senses in the lexicon

• officer (17)
• third (2)
• triangle (1)

How it is translated

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

• officers 9
• officer 5
• icers 2
• third of a measure 2
• three 1
• three-stringed instruments 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Kings 7 (3), Ezekiel 23 (2), Exodus 14 (1), Exodus 15 (1), 1 Samuel 18 (1), 2 Samuel 23 (1), 1 Kings 9 (1), 2 Kings 9 (1), 2 Kings 10 (1), 2 Kings 15 (1)

Forms

• השׁלישׁ 3
• השׁלישׁים 2
• שׁלשׁים 2
• ושׁלשׁם 1
• שׁלשׁיו 1
• השׁלשׁי 1
• ושׁלשׁיו 1
• שׁלשׁו 1
• ולשׁלשׁים 1
• והשׁלשׁים 1

Words used with it

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

• רֶכֶב rekhev “chariot” 3
• אֲרֻבָּה arubbah “window” 2
• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 4
• שָׁעַן shaan “to lean” 2
• דָּוִד david “David” 4
• שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 3
• פָּרָשׁ parash “horseman” 2
• נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 3
• רָכַב rakhav “to ride” 2
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 3
• כַּשְׂדִּים kasdi “Chaldea” 2
• חָלָל chalal “slain” 2

Key verses

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

• Exodus 14:7 — And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
• Exodus 15:4 — Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
• 1 Samuel 18:6 — And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and…
• 1 Kings 9:22 — But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his…
• 2 Kings 7:2 — Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he…
• 2 Kings 7:17 — And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of…
• 2 Kings 9:25 — Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode…
• 2 Kings 15:25 — But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh, and…
• 1 Chronicles 12:18 — Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto…
• Psalms 80:5 — Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
• Isaiah 40:12 — Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed…
• Ezekiel 23:23 — The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great…

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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.