Definition

to be (causatively, make) triplicate (by restoration, in portions, strands, days or years)

Etymology

a primitive root perhaps originally to intensify, i.e. treble; but apparently used only as denominative from H7969 (שָׁלוֹשׁ),

Word family

• שָׁלוֹשׁ shâlôwsh

How the KJV renders it

• do the third time
• (divide into
• stay) three (days
• -fold
• parts
• years old)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.