adverb
tris
Strong’sG5151
three times
stem tri-12 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 booksnever changes form
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
τρίς means "three times" / "thrice" 1234 — an adverb indicating that something happens three times 13, formed from the word for "three" 13.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Strong’s G5151 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtrece
three times
Fromadverb from G5140;
King Jamesthree times, thrice.
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
adverb of τρεῖς (which see), thrice, three times, τ. τόσσα thrice as much or many, Refs 8th c.BC+thrice, Refs 5th c.BC+thrice, NT+4th c.BC+; especially in compounds, such as τρισάθλιος, τρίσμακαρ, etc., compare τρι-, τριάζω, τρικυμί; but such words may sometimes be written divisim, τρὶς ἄθλιος, etc.: proverbial, τ. ἓξ βαλεῖν throw thrice six (the highest throw, there being three dice), Refs 8th c.BC+ long by position before (ϝ) έτεος.] (I.-Refs 5th c.BC+ tris, cf. Sanskrit tris, Latin ter.)
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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
12 occurrences, every one of them listed
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Matthew 26:34… houta ta nukta prin alektōron fōnara tris aparnesi min.… rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”
Matthew 26:75… Iēsu legarēntou hoti Prin alektōron fōnara tris aparnesi min, kai exercharantos exō klaiata …… rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went outside and wept …
Mark 14:30… nukta prin ē dis alektōron fōnara tris min aparnesi.… crows twice, you will deny Me three times.”
Mark 14:72… Iēsus hoti Prin alektōron fōnara dis tris min aparnesi, kai epibalarantos klaiate.… crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” And he broke down and wept.
Luke 22:34… Petror, ouk fōnati sēmeron alektōros heōs tris min aparneseia oidarē.… crow today until you have denied three times that you know Me.”
Luke 22:61… Prin alektōron fōnara sēmeron aparnesi min tris.… crows today, you will deny Me three times.”
John 13:38… alektōros fōnateia heōs hou arnesi min tris.… rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.[’’]
Acts 10:16houtem de geneta epi tris, kai euthuos analabita tem skevem eis …This happened three times, and all at once the sheet …
Acts 11:10houtem de geneta epi tris, kai anaspita palin hapanteim eis ton …This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up …
2 Corinthians 11:25tris rabdizima, hapax lithazima, tris nauagama, nuchthēmerem …Three times I was beaten with rods, once …
2 Corinthians 11:25tris rabdizima, hapax lithazima, tris nauagama, nuchthēmerem en to butho poiamē;… with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a …
2 Corinthians 12:8huper houteu tris ton kurion parakalama hina apostēateia apo …Three times I pleaded with the Lord to …