TR: shᵉlîyshîy → trítos (Third / Ordinal Three)

The Chain

Hebrew OT                  LXX (Greek OT)           Greek NT
────────────────           ──────────────────        ──────────────────
שְׁלִישִׁי (shᵉlîyshîy)  →  τρίτος (trítos)      →  τρίτος (trítos)
H7992, 93x in OT            80x as translation        49x in NT
"third; a third part"        of shᵉlîyshîy             "third, third part"

Bridge strength: co-occurrence 80x, PMI score 31.71 — dominant, unambiguous correspondence.

OT Usage (Hebrew)

Strong's	Word	Occurrences	Primary Meaning
H7992	שְׁלִישִׁי (shᵉlîyshîy)	93	ordinal: third; feminine: a third (part); by extension: a rank or officer of the third class

Key OT passages: - Gen 1:13 — "And the evening and the morning were the third day" - Exo 19:1 — "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt" - 1Sa 3:8 — "And the LORD called Samuel again the third time"

KJV translation distribution for H7992: "the third" (50v), "third" (13v), "and a third part" (5v), "The third" (4v)

Library: H7992-shliyshiy.md

LXX Bridge

Hebrew	Greek Translation	Co-occ	PMI Score	Notes
shᵉlîyshîy (H7992)	τρίτος (G5154)	80	31.71	Strongly dominant primary equivalent
shᵉlîyshîy (H7992)	τέταρτος (G5067)	13	14.24	Sequential listing contexts — "fourth" appears alongside
shᵉlîyshîy (H7992)	δεύτερος (G1208)	17	13.12	Sequential listing contexts — "second" appears alongside

Semantic continuity: No shift in meaning across the translation. The LXX consistently renders שְׁלִישִׁי as τρίτος for both its ordinal sense ("third") and its fractional sense ("a third part"). The Greek perfectly mirrors the Hebrew's range.

NT Usage (Greek)

Strong's	Word	Occurrences	Primary Meaning
G5154	τρίτος (trítos)	49	ordinal: third; neuter as noun: a third part; as adverb: a third time

Key NT passages: - 1Co 15:4 — "he rose again the third day according to the scriptures" — creedal formula grounding resurrection in OT pattern - Rev 8:12 — "the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars" — fractional judgment language echoing OT judgment motifs - Jhn 21:17 — "He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?" — triple repetition as climactic restoration

Library: G5154-tritos.md

Direct OT→NT Connections

NT Use	OT Background	Notes
1Co 15:4 "the third day according to the scriptures"	Hos 6:2 "After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up"	Paul's "according to the scriptures" likely references Hos 6:2 (H7992 → G5154) as the prototype
Luk 24:46 "rise from the dead the third day"	Same Hosea pattern + Jonah 1:17 three days/nights	Jesus himself cites "the scriptures" for the third-day pattern
Rev 8 "third part" trumpet judgments	Ezek 5:12 "A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence"	John's fractional-judgment imagery draws on Ezekiel's third-part language

Continuity and Shifts

What stays the same: - The ordinal sense (third in sequence) transfers perfectly — same form, same meaning - The fractional sense (one-third) transfers perfectly — Greek neuter τρίτος mirrors Hebrew feminine שְׁלִישִׁית - The climactic-repetition sense ("the third time") carries intact from Hebrew idiom

What shifts: - In the NT, τρίτος acquires a concentrated theological weight around resurrection: "the third day" becomes a technical creedal phrase (1Co 15:4) that the OT ordinal never bore alone — it required the resurrection event to charge it - The Revelation "third part" judgment pattern is heavier in proportion than the OT usage, reflecting John's deliberate concentration of fractional-devastation imagery

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