τρεῖςtreîs

Meanings

Same root

• τρίμηνονtrímēnon · G5150a three months' space
• ἀρχιτρίκλινοςarchitríklinos · G755director of the entertainment
• τρίβολοςtríbolos · G5146properly, a crow-foot (three-pronged obstruction in war), i.e. (by analogy) a thorny plant (caltrop)
• τριάκονταtriákonta · G5144thirty
• τρίστεγονtrístegon · G5152a third roof (story)
• τριετίαtrietía · G5148a three years' period (triennium)
• τριακόσιοιtriakósioi · G5145three hundred
• τρίςtrís · G5151three times

Where it appears

Appears 69 times in the Bible.

• Matthew 12:40 For as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.
• Matthew 13:33 Jesus also used this illustration: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like the yeast a woman used in making bread. Even though she put only a little yeast in three measures of flour, it permeated every part of the dough.”
• Matthew 15:32 Then Jesus called his disciples and told them, “I feel sorry for these people. They have been here with me for three days, and they have nothing left to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry, or they will faint along the way.”
• Matthew 17:4 Peter exclaimed, “Lord, it’s wonderful for us to be here! If you want, I’ll make three shelters as memorials—one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
• Matthew 18:16 But if you are unsuccessful, take one or two others with you and go back again, so that everything you say may be confirmed by two or three witnesses.
• Matthew 18:20 For where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them.”