שָׁלִישׁ

Biblical Hebrew

sistrum — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

sistrum tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

The whole BDB entry

n.[m.] pl. שָֽׁלִשִׁים, a (three-stringed? three-barred? three-cornered?) mus. instr., perhaps a sistrum (so 𝔙), or ‘triangle’ (RVm: cf. PrinceEB iii. 3228), 1 S 18:6 (+ בְּתֻפִּים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a third of a measure (1); of a measure (1); three-stringed instruments (1).

In the verses

Psalms 80:6 · tree →

הֶ֭אֱכַלְתָּם לֶ֣חֶם דִּמְעָ֑ה וַ֝תַּשְׁקֵ֗מוֹ בִּדְמָע֥וֹת שָׁלִֽישׁ׃

Word for word: you have.fed.them bread of.tear[s] and you have.made.them.drink (in) tears a.third.of.a.measure

JPS 1917: Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

Isaiah 40:12 · tree →

מִֽי־מָדַ֨ד בְּשָׁעֳל֜וֹ מַ֗יִם וְשָׁמַ֙יִם֙ בַּזֶּ֣רֶת תִּכֵּ֔ן וְכָ֥ל בַּשָּׁלִ֖שׁ עֲפַ֣ר הָאָ֑רֶץ וְשָׁקַ֤ל בַּפֶּ֙לֶס֙ הָרִ֔ים וּגְבָע֖וֹת בְּמֹאזְנָֽיִם׃

Word for word: who? has.he.measured in the.hollow of.his.hand [the].waters and.[the] heavens with (the) span has.he.marked.off? and has.he.contained? in.(the) third of.a.measure the.dust of the.earth and has.he.weighed? with (the) scale[s] mountains and hills with balances

JPS 1917: 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 the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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