Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

τρεῖς

Vocabulary form: 
trei:V, triva
Definition: 

three

Frequency: 
68
GK: 
5552
Root: 
treV
Cognates: 

A triad (triavV) is a group of three things.
A tricycle has three wheels.

Mnemonic Singing: 

Holy, Holy, Holy, merciful and mighty,
God in three persons, blessed Trinity.

Biblical Concordance

Matthew 12:40 For just as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) days and three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) days and three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) nights.
Matthew 13:33 He spoke another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and put into three (tria | τρία | acc pl neut) measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”
Matthew 15:32 Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd because they have already been with me three (treis | τρεῖς | nom pl fem) days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint from exhaustion on the way.”
Matthew 17:4 And Peter spoke to Jesus, saying, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will put up three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) shelters here — one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
Matthew 18:16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you so that every matter may be confirmed on the evidence of two or three (triōn | τριῶν | gen pl masc) witnesses.
Matthew 18:20 For where two or three (treis | τρεῖς | nom pl masc) are gathered in my name, I am there in their midst.”
Matthew 26:61 and declared, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three (triōn | τριῶν | gen pl fem) days.’”
Matthew 27:40 and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three (trisin | τρισίν | dat pl fem) days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”
Matthew 27:63 They said, “Sir, we remember that while he was still alive that impostor said, ‘After three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) days I will be raised.’
Mark 8:2 “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me three (treis | τρεῖς | nom pl fem) days already and have had nothing to eat.
Mark 8:31 Then Jesus began to teach them that it was necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the ruling priests and scribes, and be killed and after three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) days to rise again.
Mark 9:5 And answering, Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here. Let us make three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) shelters: one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah” —
Mark 9:31 for he was teaching his disciples and saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. Then three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) days after he has been killed, he will rise.
Mark 10:34 And they will mock him, and spit on him, and flog him, and kill him; but after three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) days he will rise.”
Mark 14:58 “We heard him saying, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three (triōn | τριῶν | gen pl fem) days I will build another not made with hands.’”
Mark 15:29 And those passing by ridiculed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three (trisin | τρισίν | dat pl fem) days,
Luke 1:56 Mary remained with her about three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl masc) months and returned to her home.
Luke 2:46 Then after three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) days they found him in the temple, seated in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
Luke 4:25 But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three (tria | τρία | acc pl neut) years and six months, as a great famine spread throughout the whole land;
Luke 9:33 As the men were about to leave him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah” — not knowing what he was saying.
Luke 10:36 Which of these three (triōn | τριῶν | gen pl masc), do you think, became a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?”
Luke 11:5 He said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl masc) loaves of bread,
Luke 12:52 For from now on there will be five in one household divided, three (treis | τρεῖς | nom pl masc) against two and two against three (trisin | τρισίν | dat pl masc);
Luke 13:7 And he said to the vineyard worker, ‘Look, for three (tria | τρία | nom pl neut) years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Remove it. Why should it use up the soil?’
Luke 13:21 It is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three (tria | τρία | acc pl neut) measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”
John 2:6 Now standing nearby were six stone water jars, according to the purification requirements of the Jews, each holding from twenty to thirty (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl masc) gallons.
John 2:19 Jesus answered them, saying, “Destroy this temple and in three (trisin | τρισίν | dat pl fem) days I will restore it.”
John 2:20 Then the Jews said, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and you can restore it in three (trisin | τρισίν | dat pl fem) days?”
John 21:11 So Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net ashore, full of large fish, one hundred and fifty-three of them; and although there were so many, the net was not torn.
Acts 5:7 After an interval of about three (triōn | τριῶν | gen pl fem) hours his wife came in, unaware of what had happened.
Acts 7:20 At which time Moses was born, and he was beautiful before God. He was brought up for three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl masc) months in his father’s house;
Acts 9:9 And he was three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) days without sight and neither ate nor drank anything.
Acts 10:19 As Peter was thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three (treis | τρεῖς | nom pl masc) men are looking for you.
Acts 11:11 And behold, at that very moment three (treis | τρεῖς | nom pl masc) men arrived at the house, in which we were, sent from Caesarea to me.
Acts 17:2 And according to Paul’s custom, he went to them and for three (tria | τρία | acc pl neut) Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Acts 19:8 And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl masc) months, reasoning and persuading them concerning the things of the kingdom of God.
Acts 20:3 He spent three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl masc) months there, and when a plot was hatched against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.
Acts 25:1 Three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) days after arriving in the province, Festus went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
Acts 28:7 Now in the region around that place were fields belonging to the leading man of the island, by name Publius, who welcomed us and for three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) days entertained us hospitably.
Acts 28:11 After three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl masc) months we put out to sea in a ship that had wintered at the island, a ship of Alexandria, with the “Heavenly Twins” as a figurehead.
Acts 28:12 And when we put in at Syracuse, we stayed there three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) days.
Acts 28:15 And the brothers there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three (triōn | τριῶν | gen pl fem) Taverns to meet us. On seeing them, Paul gave thanks to God and took courage.
Acts 28:17 And it happened that after three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl fem) days Paul called together the leaders of the Jews. And when they gathered, he said to them: “My brothers, though I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
1 Corinthians 10:8 We must not indulge in sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.
1 Corinthians 13:13 And now remain faith, hope, and love; these three (tria | τρία | nom pl neut). And the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 14:27 If any speak in a tongue, it should be only two, or at the most three (treis | τρεῖς | acc pl masc), and each in turn; and someone must interpret.
1 Corinthians 14:29 Two or three (treis | τρεῖς | nom pl masc) should speak as prophets and others should weigh carefully what is said.
2 Corinthians 13:1 This will be my third visit to you. On the evidence of two or three (triōn | τριῶν | gen pl masc) witnesses every accusation is to be confirmed.
Galatians 1:18 Then after three (tria | τρία | acc pl neut) years I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephas and stayed with him fifteen days.
1 Timothy 5:19 Do not accept an accusation against an elder, except on the evidence of two or three (triōn | τριῶν | gen pl masc) witnesses.

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