| Translation | Verse | Text |
| Strong Concordance | Jos 2:22 | And they went [03212], and came [0935] unto the mountain [02022], and abode [03427] there three [07969] days [03117], until the pursuers [07291] were returned [07725]: and the pursuers [07291] sought [01245] them throughout all the way [01870], but found [04672] them not. |
| 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. |