Numeral adjective treis (three) in the New Testament

(Translation from NRSV)


Matthew

12: 40For just as Jonah was three (treis) days and three (treis) nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three (treis) days and three (treis) nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth.
13: 33He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three (treis) measures of flour until all of it was leavened."
15: 32Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three (treis) days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way."
17: 4Then Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here; if you wish, I will make three (treis) dwellings here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
18: 16But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three (treis) witnesses.
18: 20For where two or three (treis) are gathered in my name, I am there among them."
26: 61and said, "This fellow said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three (treis) days.'"
27: 40and saying, "You who would destroy the temple and build it in three (treis) days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross."
27: 63and said, "Sir, we remember what that impostor said while he was still alive, 'After three (treis) days I will rise again.'

Mark

8: 2"I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three (treis) days and have nothing to eat.
8: 31Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three (treis) days rise again.
9: 5Then Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; let us make three (treis) dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
9: 31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three (treis) days after being killed, he will rise again."
10: 34they will mock him, and spit upon him, and flog him, and kill him; and after three (treis) days he will rise again."
14: 58"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three (treis) days I will build another, not made with hands.'"
15: 29Those who passed by derided him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three (treis) days,

Luke

1: 56And Mary remained with her about three (treis) months and then returned to her home.
2: 46After three (treis) days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
4: 25But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three (treis) years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land;
9: 33Just as they were leaving him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three (treis) dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" - not knowing what he said.
10: 36Which of these three (treis), do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?"
11: 5And 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) loaves of bread;
12: 52From now on five in one household will be divided, three (treis) against two and two against three (treis);
13: 7So he said to the gardener, 'See here! For three (treis) years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?'
13: 21It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three (treis) measures of flour until all of it was leavened."

John

2: 6Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding two or three (treis) measures.
2: 19Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three (treis) days I will raise it up."
2: 20The Jews then said, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three (treis) days?"
21: 11So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred fifty-three (treis) of them; and though there were so many, the net was not torn.

Acts

5: 7After an interval of about three (treis) hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.
7: 20At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful before God. For three (treis) months he was brought up in his father's house;
9: 9For three (treis) days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.
10: 19While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Look, three (treis) men are searching for you.
11: 11At that very moment three (treis) men, sent to me from Caesarea, arrived at the house where we were.
17: 2And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three (treis) sabbath days argued with them from the scriptures,
19: 8He entered the synagogue and for three (treis) months spoke out boldly, and argued persuasively about the kingdom of God.
20: 3where he stayed for three (treis) months. He was about to set sail for Syria when a plot was made against him by the Jews, and so he decided to return through Macedonia.
25: 1Three (treis) days after Festus had arrived in the province, he went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem
28: 7Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who received us and entertained us hospitably for three (treis) days.
28: 11Three (treis) months later we set sail on a ship that had wintered at the island, an Alexandrian ship with the Twin Brothers as its figurehead.
28: 12We put in at Syracuse and stayed there for three (treis) days;
28: 15The believers from there, when they heard of us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three (treis) Taverns to meet us. On seeing them, Paul thanked God and took courage.
28: 17Three (treis) days later he called together the local leaders of the Jews. When they had assembled, he said to them, "Brothers, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, yet I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.

1 John

5: 7There are three (treis) that testify:
5: 8the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three (treis) agree.

1 Corinthians

10: 8We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three (treis) thousand fell in a single day.
13: 13And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three (treis); and the greatest of these is love.
14: 27If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three (treis), and each in turn; and let one interpret.
14: 29Let two or three (treis) prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.

2 Corinthians

13: 1This is the third time I am coming to you. "Any charge must be sustained by the evidence of two or three (treis) witnesses."

Galatians

1: 18Then after three (treis) years I did go up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and stayed with him fifteen days;

1 Timothy

5: 19Never accept any accusation against an elder except on the evidence of two or three (treis) witnesses.

Hebrews

10: 28Anyone who has violated the law of Moses dies without mercy "on the testimony of two or three (treis) witnesses."

James

5: 17Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three (treis) years and six months it did not rain on the earth.

Revelation

6: 6and I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's pay, and three (treis) quarts of barley for a day's pay, but do not damage the olive oil and the wine!"
8: 13Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew in midheaven, "Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three (treis) angels are about to blow!"
9: 18By these three (treis) plagues a third of humankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.
11: 9For three (treis) and a half days members of the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb;
11: 11But after the three (treis) and a half days, the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and those who saw them were terrified.
16: 13And I saw three (treis) foul spirits like frogs coming from the mouth of the dragon, from the mouth of the beast, and from the mouth of the false prophet.
16: 19The great city was split into three (treis) parts, and the cities of the nations fell. God remembered great Babylon and gave her the wine-cup of the fury of his wrath.
21: 13on the east three (treis) gates, on the north three (treis) gates, on the south three (treis) gates, and on the west three (treis) gates.