Aramaic word · H8532

תְּלָת

telat

three

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears 11 times in 11 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament. ·

What it means

1) three

1a) three (cardinal number)

1b) third (ordinal number)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Ezra · 2
  1. Ezra 6:4 תְּלָתָ֔א three

    with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.

  2. Ezra 6:15 תְּלָתָ֖ה three

    And this temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

Daniel · 9
  1. Daniel 3:23 תְּלָ֣תֵּה֔וֹן three of them

    And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, firmly bound, fell into the blazing fiery furnace.

  2. Daniel 3:24 תְּלָתָ֜א three

    Suddenly King Nebuchadnezzar jumped up in amazement and asked his advisers, “Did we not throw three men, firmly bound, into the fire?” “Certainly, O king,” they replied.

  3. Daniel 6:2 תְּלָתָ֔א three

    and over them three administrators, including Daniel, to whom these satraps were accountable so that the king would not suffer loss.

  4. Daniel 6:10 תְּלָתָ֨ה three

    Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.

    Here: Three times. Compare Psalm 55:17, 'evening, morning, and noon.'

  5. Daniel 6:13 תְּלָתָה֙ three

    Then they told the king, “Daniel, one of the exiles from Judah, shows no regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed. He still makes his petition three times a day.”

  6. Daniel 7:5 וּתְלָ֥ת and three

    Suddenly another beast appeared, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. So it was told, ‘Get up and gorge yourself on flesh!’

  7. Daniel 7:8 וּתְלָ֗ת and three

    While I was contemplating the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like those of a man and a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.

    Here: 'And three.' A specific number of rival kings displaced as the new horn rises. 7:24 says it 'will subdue three kings'.

  8. Daniel 7:20 תְּלָ֑ת three [horns]

    I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell—the horn whose appearance was more imposing than the others, with eyes and with a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.

  9. Daniel 7:24 וּתְלָתָ֥ה and three

    And the ten horns are ten kings who will rise from this kingdom. After them another king, different from the earlier ones, will rise and subdue three kings.

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