STRONGS NUMBER H8029


Word Summary
shillesh: pertaining to the third
Original Word: שִׁלֵּשׁ
Transliteration: shillesh
Phonetic Spelling: (shil-laysh')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: pertaining to the third
Meaning: pertaining to the third
Strong's Concordance
third generation

From shalash; a descendant of the third degree, i.e. Great grandchild -- third (generation).

see HEBREW shalash

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8029. shillesh

II. [שִׁלֵּשׁ‎] adjective pertaining to the third; — only masculine plural as substantive שִׁלֵּשִׁיםthose of third Generation (grandsons); שׁ ׳בְּנֵיGenesis 50:23 (E) sons of those of third Generation, i.e. great-grandsons (see KöSK 1898, 533 ff.); עַלשֿׁ ׳עַלבָּֿנִים וְעַלרִֿבֵּעִיםExodus 20:5 (E; see [ רִבֵּעַ‎]} = Deuteronomy 5:9; Numbers 14:18, compare Exodus 34:7 (both J).