adjective
treis
Strong’sG5140
three
stem trei-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
τρεῖς, οἱ, αἱ, τρία, τά
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5140 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtrice
"three"
Froma primary (plural) number;
King Jamesthree.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
genitive τριῶν: dative τρισί, also τριοῖσι Refs 6th c.BC+; Aeolic dialect τρίσσι Refs (written τρες Refs: Doric dialect nominative τρέες Refs; τρῖς Refs 4th c.BC+; τρῖς Refs 6th c.BC+:—three, Refs 8th c.BC+; τρία ἔπεα three words, proverbial in Refs 5th c.BC+—for from the earliest times three was a sacred and lucky number, especially with the Pythagoreans (compare τριάς), Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰ καὶ τῶν τριῶν ἓν οἴσομαιRefs —διὰ τριῶν ἀπόλλυμαι I am thrice, i. e. utterly, undone, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ διὰ τριῶν ἀγωγή the 'trivium', Refs 6th c.AD+by threes, Refs 5th c.BC+ stem tr[icaron]-, fuller form trey-, nominative tréy-es (Sanskrit tráyas, Latin tres), whence τρέες, contraction τρῆς and τρεῖς (written τρες Refs; accusative tri-ns (Gothic prins, Sanskrit tr[imacracute]n), whence τρῖς and τρίιν; in Gr. the nominative τρεῖς functions as accusative (as in Attic dialect), or the accusative τρῖς as nominative ([same places]).)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | treis | treis | treis | treis | treis | treis |
| object accusative | treis | treis | treis | treis | ||
| direct address vocative | treis | treis | treis | treis | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | treis | treis | treis | treis | treis1×Τριῶν | treis |
| to, for dative | treis | treis | treis | treis | treis | treis |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
treis“three”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Acts 28:15… apantēsian ni achri Appiouou Foreu kai Treis Tabernaiu, hoin horarantos tos Paulos eucharistarantos …… the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. When Paul …