- Original: שׁלשׁ - Transliteration: Shalash - Phonetic: shaw-lash' - Definition: 1. to do a third time, do three times, divide in three parts a. (Piel) to do a third time, divide into three parts b. (Pual) to be three years of age, be threefold - Origin: a primitive root perhaps originally to intensify, i.e. treble - TWOT entry: TWOT - 2403 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root perhaps originally to intensify that is treble; but apparently used only as denominative from H7969 to be (causatively make) triplicate (by restoration in portions strands days or years): - do the third time (divide into stay) three (days -fold parts years old). Total KJV Occurrences: 9 • days, 1 1 Samuel 20:19 • divide, 1 Deuteronomy 19:3 • old, 3 Genesis 15:9(3) • three, 1 Ezekiel 42:6 • threefold, 1 Ecclesiastes 4:12 • time, 2 1 Kings 18:34(2)