| Translation | Verse | Text |
| Strong Concordance | 1Ki 5:16 | Beside the chief [08269] of Solomon's [08010] officers [05324] which were over the work [04399], three [07969] thousand [0505] and three [07969] hundred [03967], which ruled [07287] over the people [05971] that wrought [06213] in the work [04399]. |
| Word | American Tract Society - Definition |
| THREE | The phrase "three days and three nights," Mt 12:40, was equivalent in Hebrew to the English "three days;" the Jews employing the expression "a day and a night" to denote our "day" of twentyfour hours. Nor did "three days," 1Sa 30:13, literally "this third day," according to their usage, necessarily include the whole of three days, but a part of three days, a continuous period including one whole day of twenty-four hours, and a portion of the day preceding it and the day following it. Compare Ge 7:12,17 1Sa 30:12-13. |