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title: שִׁלֵּשִׁים — thirty · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שִׁלֵּשִׁים (8029), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: thirty. BDB 1906: adj. pertaining to the third. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שִׁלֵּשִׁים

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«שִׁלֵּשִׁים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **thirty** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 8029 · **BDB:** שִׁלֵּשׁ²

### Glosses

a.third.generation (4); of.a.third.generation (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

thirty [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8029/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. pertaining to the third [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8029/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. pertaining to the third;—only m.pl. as subst. שִׁלֵּשִׁים those of third generation (grandsons); בְּנֵי שׁ׳ Gn 50:23 (E) sons of those of third generation, i.e. great-grandsons (v. KöSK 1898, 533ff.); עַל־בָּנִים עַל־שׁ׳ וְעַל־רִבֵּעִים Ex 20:5 (E; v. \[רִבֵּעַ\]) = Dt 5:9; Nu 14:18; cf. Ex 34:7 (both J).

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שִׁלֵּשִׁים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8029/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 50:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.50.23/)

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וַיַּ֤רְא יוֹסֵף֙ לְאֶפְרַ֔יִם בְּנֵ֖י שִׁלֵּשִׁ֑ים גַּ֗ם בְּנֵ֤י מָכִיר֙ בֶּן־מְנַשֶּׁ֔ה יֻלְּד֖וּ עַל־בִּרְכֵּ֥י יוֹסֵֽף׃

*Word for word:* and he.saw Joseph of Ephraim sons of.a.third.generation also the.sons of.Makir the.son of.Manasseh they.were.born on the.knees of.Joseph

*JPS 1917:* And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees.

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[Numbers 14:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.14.18/)

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יְהוָ֗ה אֶ֤רֶךְ אַפַּ֙יִם֙ וְרַב־חֶ֔סֶד נֹשֵׂ֥א עָוֺ֖ן וָפָ֑שַׁע וְנַקֵּה֙ לֹ֣א יְנַקֶּ֔ה פֹּקֵ֞ד עֲוֺ֤ן אָבוֹת֙ עַל־בָּנִ֔ים עַל־שִׁלֵּשִׁ֖ים וְעַל־רִבֵּעִֽים׃

*Word for word:* Yahweh \[is\].long of.anger(s) and great of.covenant.loyalty \[he.is\].forgiving iniquity and transgression and certainly.(leave.unpunished) not he.will.leave.unpunished \[he.is\].visiting \[the\].iniquity of.parents on \[the\].children on a.third.generation and on a.fourth.generation

*JPS 1917:* The LORD is slow to anger, and plenteous in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

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