What does דֶּרֶךְ · שָׁלוֹשׁ · יוֹם mean in the Bible?
דֶּרֶךְ · שָׁלוֹשׁ · יוֹם is a Hebrew phrase meaning "a road (as trodden ); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb".
Hebrew · H1870, H7969, H3117
דֶּרֶךְ שְׁלֹשֶׁת יָמִים
A road (as trodden ); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb · three ; occasionally (ordinal) third , or (multiple) thrice · a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
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דֶּרֶךְ H1870 a road (as trodden ); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
Pronunciation derek
Path literally walked becomes metaphor for life's moral and spiritual trajectory; covenant-defining directional term
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שָׁלוֹשׁ H7969 three ; occasionally (ordinal) third , or (multiple) thrice
Pronunciation šālwōš
Cardinal number marking completion or divine testing; foundational to covenant witness and resurrection typology in Scripture.
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יוֹם H3117 a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
Pronunciation yôm
Fundamental unit of time marked by daylight, extending metaphorically to ages, epochs, and eschatological periods.
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What does דֶּרֶךְ שְׁלֹשֶׁת יָמִים (dereḵ šĕlōšeṯ yāmîm) mean in the Bible?
דֶּרֶךְ · שָׁלוֹשׁ · יוֹם is a Hebrew phrase meaning "a road (as trodden ); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb".
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How many biblical occurrences are listed for H1870, H7969, H3117?
H1870, H7969, H3117 is connected to 3,447 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Hebrew phrase. a road (as trodden ); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
Strong's H1870, H7969, H3117
Lexical occurrences 3,447 verses Source Gloss
a road (as trodden ); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
Word Origins
דֶּרֶךְ שְׁלֹשֶׁת יָמִים is built from this root:
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