H8531

תְּלַת

te.latA:N-M

third

third, one of three, a third part Aramaic of she.li.shi (שְׁלִישִׁי "third" H7992)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

שֵׁאת noun feminine doubtful word; perhaps (for *שֶׁאֶת) din of battle (= שָׁאוֺן); Thes and others devastation, compare שְׁאִיָּה; either meaning suits ׳הַשּׁ Lam 3:47 (|| הַשָּׁ֑בֶר; but Wecompare Hex. 2, 351, from II. שׁוא, desolation); contracted (according to Thes and most) שֵׁת, in בְּנֵי שֵׁת Num 24:17 (J) sons of (battle-)din (warriors, = שָׁאוֺןבְּנֵי in || Jer 48:45); Vrss take שֵׁת here as proper name; Gray proposes שֵׂת = שְׂאֵת, pride, or reading as Jeremiah compare Wecomp. Hex.351.



[תְלַּתּ] noun [masculine] a third part (so ᵑ7 תֻלְּתָֿ, תַּלְתָּא, Syriac , Nabataean תלת SAC121, Arabic , , Assyrian šulultu (= šuluštu) MeissnSuppl. 95, compare DlWB; see also M88 * DrDan 5:7); — emphatic תַּלְתָּא adverb as one of three Dan 5:16; Dan 5:29 (Bev the third day, every three days, see So in M88 *).


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