Jastrow: שָׁלַשׁ

שָׁלַשׁ, שִׁלֵּשׁ I (b. h.; denom. of שָׁלשׁ) 1) to do or come for the third time. Num. R. s. 420 לא יצאת אותה שנה ולא שינתה ולא שִׁילְּשָׁה וכ׳ not that year passed, nor the second, nor the third, when &c., i.e. within three years these things occurred; a. e. —2) to go back to the third generation. B. Bath. X, 7 יְשַׁלְּשׁוּ they should write the grandfather’s name in the document. —3) to divide into three parts. Ib. III, 4 מְשַׁלְּשִׁין ביניהם the fine is divided between them (the three sets of witnesses convicted of an alibi); Macc. I, 3. Ib. משלשין בממון ואין מש׳ במכות the monetary fine is divided, but not the punishment (but every one has to undergo the full punishment). Ab. Zar. 19ᵇ לעולם יְשַׁלִּשׁ אדם שנותיו שליש וכ׳ a man should always divide his years (his time) into three parts, devoting one third to Bible, one to Mishnah &c.; Kidd. 30ᵃ יַשְׁלִישׁ (Hif.). Ex. R. s. 1527 הריני מְשַׁלְּשָׁם I will divide them among us three; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְשׁוּלָּשׁ; f. מְשׁוּלֶּשֶׁת; pl. מְשׁוּלָּשִׁים, מְשׁוּלָּשִׁין; מְשׁוּלָּשׁוֹת a) done for the third time. Ab. Zar. l. c., כתוב … ומש׳ בכתובים stated in the Torah, a second time in the Prophets, and a third time in Hagiographa; Meg. 31ᵃ; a. fr.—b) divided into three, arranged in three classes, threefold. Deut. R. s. 233 (ref. to והשלשית, Zech. XIII, 8) אלו ישראל אנקראו שלישין שהם מש׳ וכ׳ that means Israel, who are called ‘thirds’, for they are divided into three classes, priests &c. Midr. Prov. to XXII, 20 (ref. to שלשים, ib.) כל מעשי תורה מש׳ היא מש׳ ואותיותיה מש׳ … שבט מש׳ וכ׳ all affairs of the Torah are threefold; itself is threefold: Torah, Prophets, and Hagiographa, and its signs are threefold: אמת (Truth); and it was given through a tribe third in order: Reuben, Shimeon, and Levi; משה מש׳ Moses the third born &c. Cant. R. to I, 1 כל מעשיו … מש׳ היו all the events of that man’s (Solomon’s) life were marked by three stages (rise, fall, and rise).—B. Bath. X, 7 ואם היו מש׳ and if the names are alike up to the grandfather (v. supra); a. fr.—Y. Shebi. I, 33ᵇ, v. מְשׁוּלָּשׁ.—c) developed to one third of the full growth, v. מְשׁוּלָּשׁ. —4) (apocop. of שִׁלְשֵׁל) to let down, v. שִׁלְשֵׁל I.