# H7991 שָׁלִישׁ

שָׁלִישׁ (shâlîysh), Strong’s H7991: a triple, i.e. (as a musical instrument) a triangle (or perhaps rather threestringed lute); also (as an indefinite, great quantity) a three-fold measure… KJV…

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*shâlîysh* — a triple, i.e. (as a musical instrument) a triangle (or perhaps rather threestringed lute); also (as an indefinite, great quantity) a three-fold measure…

KJV: captain, instrument of musick, (great) lord, (great) measure, prince, three (from the…

Derived from [שָׁלוֹשׁ shâlôwsh](https://besorah.bible/word/H7969) (three)

Occurs 17 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [שָׁלִישׁ] n.[m.] a (three-stringed? three-barred? three-cornered?) mus. instr., perhaps a sistrum, or ‘triangle’, 1 S 18:6
- שָׁלִישׁ n.m
- שָׁלִישׁ n.m. adjutant or officer
- שָׁלִ(י)שׁ n.[m.]
- שָׁלִ(י)שׁ n.[m.] third (part, i.e. of ephah? dub.), name of a measure

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 14:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=7) — and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, with captains over all of them.
- [Exodus 15:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=4) — He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Sea of Suf.
- [1 Samuel 18:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/18?v=6) — As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel…
- [2 Samuel 23:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/23?v=8) — These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; he was…
- [1 Kings 9:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/9?v=22) — But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes…
- [2 Kings 7:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/7?v=2) — Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if the LORD made windows in…
- [2 Kings 7:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/7?v=17) — The king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate; and the people trampled over…
- [2 Kings 7:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/7?v=19) — and that captain answered the man of God, and said, “Now, behold, if the LORD made windows in heaven, might such a…
- [2 Kings 9:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/9?v=25) — Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite…
- [2 Kings 10:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/10?v=25) — As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill…