Strong's Concordance H7991

Original Word: שָׁלִישׁ
Transliteration: shâlîysh
Phonetic Spelling: shaw-leesh'
or שָׁלוֹשׁ; (1 Chronicles 11:11; 1 Chronicles 12:18), or שָׁלֹשׁ; (2 Samuel 23:13), from H7969; a triple, i.e. (as a musical instrument) a triangle (or perhaps rather three-stringed 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); captain, instrument of musick, (great) lord, (great) measure, prince, three (from the margin).

Usages throughout the bible

Exodus 14:7 - And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains H7991 over every one of them.

Exodus 15:4 - Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains H7991 also are drowned in the Red sea.

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 Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments H7991 of musick.

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; H7991 the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.

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, H7991 and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.

2 Kings 7:2 - Then a lord H7991 on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

2 Kings 7:17 - And the king appointed the lord H7991 on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.

2 Kings 7:19 - And that lord H7991 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, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

2 Kings 9:25 - Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, H7991 Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;

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, H7991 Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains H7991 cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

2 Kings 15:25 - But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain H7991 of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.

1 Chronicles 11:11 - And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: H7991 he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.

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, H7991 and captains of his chariots and horsemen.

Psalms 80:5 - Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. H7991

Proverbs 22:20 - Have not I written to thee excellent things H7991 in counsels and knowledge,

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 measure, H7991 and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Ezekiel 23:15 - Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes H7991 to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

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, captains and rulers, great lords H7991 and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.