H8032 שִׁלְשׁוֹם (shilshôwm) shil-shome'

Hebrew

Noun (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

three days ago

Strong's Definition

trebly, i.e. (in time) day before yesterday

Derivation: or שִׁלְשֹׁם; from the same as H8028 (שֶׁלֶשׁ);

KJV Usage: [phrase] before (that time, -time), excellent things (from the margin), [phrase] heretofore, three days, [phrase] time past.

TWOT Reference: 2403c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) day before yesterday, three days ago

1a) an idiom for 'heretofore in times past'

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

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STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

שִׁלְשֹׁם (shil.shom) — three days ago. 1) day before yesterday, three days ago 1a) an idiom for 'heretofore in times past'

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

שִׁלְשֹׁום (H8032)

noun m · שָׁלֹשׁ · יֹום

Temporal Referents

Collocation: תְּמֹול שִׁלְשֹׁום

(what used to be done) before, in the past = reference to times in the past when a certain activity used to take place repeatedly

GEN 31:2 · GEN 31:5 · EXO 4:10 · EXO 5:7 · EXO 5:8 · EXO 5:14 · EXO 21:29 · EXO 21:36 · DEU 4:42 · DEU 19:4 · DEU 19:6 · JOS 3:4 · JOS 4:18 · JOS 20:5 · RUT 2:11 · 1SA 4:7 · 1SA 10:11 · 1SA 14:21 · 1SA 19:7 · 1SA 21:6 · 2SA 3:17 · 2SA 5:2 · 2KI 13:5 · 1CH 11:2

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

שִׁלְשֹׁם and (less oft.) שִׁלְשׁוֹם 25 adv. = three days ago, specif. day before yesterday base

Bible Occurrences (25)

31:2 31:5

4:10 5:7 5:8 5:14 21:29 21:36

4:42 19:4 19:6

3:4 4:18 20:5

2:11

4:7 10:11 14:21 19:7 21:5

3:17 5:2

13:5

11:2

22:20

Genesis 31:2

And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban... that his attitude toward him... had changed.

Genesis 31:5

and he told them, I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed......; but the God of my father has been with me.

Exodus 4:10

Please, Lord, Moses replied......, I have never... been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.

Exodus 5:7

You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks -. They must go and gather their own straw.

Exodus 5:8

But require of them the same quota of bricks as before...; do not reduce it.... For they are lazy; that is why... they are crying out..., Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

Exodus 5:14

Then the Israelite... foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today..., as you did before......?

Exodus 21:29

But if the ox has a habit... of goring,... and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, then the ox must be stoned and its owner must also be put to death.

Exodus 21:36

But if it was known that the ox had a habit... of goring,... yet its owner failed to restrain it, he shall pay full compensation..., ox for ox, and the dead [animal] will be his.