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
Daniel · 9
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Daniel 3:23 תְּלָ֣תֵּה֔וֹן three of them
And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, firmly bound, fell into the blazing fiery furnace.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.”
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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!’
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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'.
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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.
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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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