τρεῖς, οἱ, αἱ, τρία, τά, three: Mat_12:40; Mar_8:2; Luk_1:56; Joh_2:19, and often. (From Homer down.)

τρεῖς treis 68x three, Mat_12:40 . The frequency count does not include its occurrence in the name Τριῶν ταβερνῶν in Act_28:15 (G5553) three.

τρεῖς , οἱ , αἱ , τρία , τά , three: Mat_12:40 , al. ; μετὰ τ . ἡμέρας = τῇ τρίτῃ ἡ ., Mar_10:34 , al. ( cf. Field, Notes , 11 ff .). Τρεῖς Ταβέρναι ( see ταβέρνη ), Three Taverns (Lit. Tres Tabernae) a halting place on the Appian Way: Act_28:15 ( v. DB , iv, 690).†

τρεῖς [page 640] The phraseology of such passages as Mar_6:7 (δύο δύο ), Mar_6:39 (συμπόσια συμπόσια ) and Mar_6:40 (πρασιαὶ πρασιαί ) has hitherto been generally put down to Hebraistic influence. But apart from the fact that the idiom is found in classical Greek (Soph. Fragm . 201 μίαν μίαν , Aesch. Persae 980 μυρία μυρία ), and the LXX ( Gen_7:15 δύο δύο , al .), and survives in MGr (cf. Thumb Hellen , p. 128, Handb . § 132), it can now be paralleled from the papyri. A good ex. is P Oxy I. 121 .19 (iii/A.D.) τοὺς κλάδους ἔνικον ( l . ἔνεγκον ) εἰς τὴν ὁδὸν πάντα ( l . πάντας ) εἵνα δήσῃ τρία τρία κὲ ( l . καὶ ) ἐλκύσῃ , carry all the branches into the road and have them tied together by threes and dragged along (Edd.) : cf. ib . VI. 886 .19 (iii/A.D.) ἐρε ( l . αἶρε ) κατὰ δύο δύο , lift up (the leaves) two by two (the editors compare Luk_10:1 ), and ib . 940 .6 (v/A.D.) ἔχε ἐγγὺς σοῦ μίαν μίαν , keep him at hand together with you ( una : see the editors note). But while this is true, the independence of Hebrew must not be carried too far. According to Robertson Gr . p. 284, it is a vernacular idiom which was given fresh impetus from the Hebrew idiom. See the useful summary in Meecham Letters , p. 85, and cf. Headlam s note to Herodas IV. 61 θερμὰ θερμὰ πηδεῦσαι . In P Cairo Zen II. 59236 .3 (B.C. 254 or 253) a petitioner complains that, in fixing his vineyard assessment, the officials had taken as a basis the average yield ἐκ τριῶν ἐτῶν , and not ἐκ δύο ἐτῶν as in his father s time. For the parenthetic nom. ἡμέραι τρεῖς in Mar_8:2 , cf. P Oxy XIV. 1764 .4 (iii/A.D.) ἐπεὶ πολ [λ ]αὶ ἡμέραι προσκαρτεροῦμεν Φιλέᾳ : see also s.v . ἡμέρα and Meisterhans Gr . p. 203.

τρεῖς Lat. tres, tria, three, Hom. , etc.

τρεῖς, οἱ, αἱ, τρία, τά three: Mat.12:40, al.; μετὰ τ. ἡμέρας = τῇ τρίτῃ ἡ., Mrk.10:34, al. (cf. Field, Notes, 11 ff.) Τρεῖς Ταβέρναι (see: ταβέρνη), Three Taverns (Lit. Tres Tabernae) a halting place on the Appian Way: Act.28:15 (see DB, iv, 690).† (AS)