Hebrew word · H8030
שִׁלְשָׁה
veshilshah
Shilshah
A personal name built on the number three (shalosh). It may mean 'triad' or 'third (son)' or a related idea. It is close in form to Shalishah (שָׁלִשָׁה), a district Saul passed through while searching for his father's donkeys (1 Sam 9:4).
Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
A man of the tribe of Asher living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.7.37;
son of: Zophah (H6690);
brother of: Suah (H5477), Harnepher (H2774), Shual (H7777B), Beri (H1275), Imrah (H3236), Bezer (H1221H), Hod (H1936), Shamma (H8037H), Ithran (H3506H) and Beera (H0878)
§ Shilshah = "strong"
an Asherite, son of Zophah
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
In depth
From the study of 1 Chronicles 7:37
- Range of meaning
A personal name built on the number three (shalosh). It may mean 'triad' or 'third (son)' or a related idea. It is close in form to Shalishah (שָׁלִשָׁה), a district Saul passed through while searching for his father's donkeys (1 Sam 9:4).
- Against the English
The name is transliterated in every version. The link with a place name cannot be seen in English.
- Used elsewhere in the period
Only here as a personal name. The place Shalishah (1 Sam 9:4) and Baal-shalishah (2 Kgs 4:42) lie in the hill country of Ephraim and Benjamin.
Similar words
Where it appears
1 Chronicles · 1
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1 Chronicles 7:37 וְשִׁלְשָׁ֛ה and Shilshah
Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.
Here: Ninth son of Zophah. The name comes from the root for 'three' (shalosh) and may mean 'triad' or 'third.' It closely resembles 'the land of Shalishah' in 1 Samuel 9:4, which may be a clue that this list reflects clan territories.
Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.