שלישי

שְׁלִישִׁיm. (b. h.; preced. wds.) third. Mekh. Bshall., s.1, v. שָׁלִיש. Tam.VII, 4 בַּשְּׁ׳ הויוכ׳ on the third day of the week they recited Meg.I, 2. Gen. R. s. 3. Ib. s. 4; a. v. fr.Esp. a) ש׳ לטומאה (or sub. לטוטאה) unclean in the third degree by contact with uncleanness of the second degree (שֵׁנִי). Toh. II, 2, sq. Ḥag.III, 2, v. רְבִיעִי; a. fr.b) ש׳ relation in the third degree, second cousin. Snh.28a, a. e., v. שֵׁנִי.c) talk about a third (absent) person, gossip, calumny (v. לִישָׁן). Midr. Till. to Ps. 120 לשון הרע קורין אותו ש׳וכ׳ we call the evil tongue shlishi, because it slays three: himself (the maligner), the receiver, and the maligned.Pl. שְׁלִישִׁין. Deut. R. s. 233>, v. שָׁלַש.Fem. שְׁלִישִׁית. Taan.II, 4 על הש׳וכ׳ when blowing the Shofar at the third benediction, one says Meg.III, 4 בש׳וכ׳ on the third Sabbath of the month we read Tanḥ. Vaëthḥ. 6 ש׳ הצאןוכ׳ the third time (didst thou sin, when thou didst say,) shall flocks (Num. 11:22); a. v. fr.Par. I, אם אתה אומר ש׳ … כשאתה אומר שְׁלשִׁיתוכ׳ when you say shlishith, it means the third in the count with others; when you say shloshith, it means in its third year.