# שָׁלִישׁ (shalish)

Israeli respelling: sha-lish. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7991. 18 Old Testament occurrences.

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 (perhaps a treble ephah); also (as an officer) a general of the third rank (upward, i.e. the highest)

King James renderings: captain, instrument of musick, (great) lord, (great) measure, prince, three (from the margin).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shalish-h7991

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/14/7) — And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
- [Exodus 15:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/15/4) — Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
- [1 Samuel 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/18/6) — And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Is…
- [2 Samuel 23:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/23/8) — These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the…
- [1 Kings 9:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/9/22) — But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, a…
- [2 Kings 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/7/2) — Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this t…
- [2 Kings 7:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/7/17) — And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he d…
- [2 Kings 7:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/7/19) — And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said…
- [2 Kings 9:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/25) — Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, wh…
- [2 Kings 10:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/25) — And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in,…
- [2 Kings 15:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/15/25) — But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with A…
- [1 Chronicles 11:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/11/11) — And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear agains…
- [2 Chronicles 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/8/9) — But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains…
- [Psalms 80:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/80/5) — Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
- [Proverbs 22:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/22/20) — Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
- [Isaiah 40:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/12) — 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 mea…
- [Ezekiel 23:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/15) — Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Ba…
- [Ezekiel 23:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/23) — The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captain…