Strong's Concordance
Original word: שָׁלִישׁ
Transliteration: shaliysh
Definition (short): captain
Definition (full): a triple, a triangle, a three-fold measure, a general of the third rank
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Or shalowsh (1 Chron. 11:11; 12:18) {shaw- loshe'}; or shalosh (2 Sam. 23:13) {shaw-loshe'}; from shalowsh; a triple, i.e. (as a musical instrument) a triangle (or perhaps rather three-stringed lute); also (as an indefinite, great quantity) a three-fold measure (perhaps a treble ephah); also (as an officer) a general of the third rank (upward, i.e. The highest) -- captain, instrument of musick, (great) lord, (great) measure, prince, three (from the margin).
see HEBREW shalowsh
References
KJV:
And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
NASB:
and he took six hundred select chariots, and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.
KJV:
Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
NASB:
"Pharaoh's chariots and his army He has cast into the sea; And the choicest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
KJV:
And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
NASB:
It happened as they were coming, when David returned from killing the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy and with musical instruments.
KJV:
These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
NASB:
These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains, he was called Adino the Eznite, because of eight hundred slain by him at one time;
KJV:
But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
NASB:
But Solomon did not make slaves of the sons of Israel; for they were men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen.