# H8027 שָׁלַשׁ

שָׁלַשׁ (shâlash), Strong’s H8027: to be (causatively, make) triplicate (by restoration, in portions, strands, days or years) KJV: do the third time, (divide into, stay) three (days, -fold, parts…

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*shâlash* — to be (causatively, make) triplicate (by restoration, in portions, strands, days or years)

KJV: do the third time, (divide into, stay) three (days, -fold, parts, years old).

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

Occurs 9 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [שִׁלֵּשׁ] Pi. denom. do a third time, divide into three parts, etc.
- Pu. Pt. three years old

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 15:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=9) — He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove…
- [Deuteronomy 19:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/19?v=3) — You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which the LORD your God causes you to inherit into three…
- [1 Samuel 20:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/20?v=19) — When you have stayed three days, go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and…
- [1 Kings 18:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/18?v=34) — He said, “Do it a second time;” and they did it the second time. He said, “Do it a third time;” and they did it the…
- [Ezekiel 42:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/42?v=6) — For they were in three stories, and they didn’t have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was…
- [Ecclesiastes 4:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/4?v=12) — If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.