GreekG5140Adjective

τρεῖς

treis

62Occurrences
G5140Strong's #
AdjectivePart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

"three"

a primary (plural) number;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
three: *μετὰ ἡμέρας *= τῇ τρίτῃ ἡ., *Τρεῖς Ταβέρναι *(see: ταβέρνη), Three Taverns (Lit. Tres Tabernae) a halting place on the Appian Way: (see DB, iv, 690).

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Adjective

Morphology Code

G:A

Full Description

Greek Adjective

Occurrences

τρεῖς appears 62 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Acts
14
Luke
9
Matthew
9
Revelation
8
Mark
7
1 Corinthians
4
John
4
1 John
2

Key Passages

1 Corinthians 10:8BSB

We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

Acts 20:3BSB

where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.

James 5:17BSB

Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.

Luke 4:25BSB

But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.

Mark 14:58BSB

“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this man-made temple, and in three days I will build another that is made without hands.’”

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