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Lexicon :: Strong's H6242 - ʿeśrîm

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עֶשְׂרִים
Transliteration
ʿeśrîm
Pronunciation
es-reem'
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1711e

Strong’s Definitions

עֶשְׂרִים ʻesrîym, es-reem'; from H6235; twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth:—(six-) score, twenty(-ieth).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 315x

The KJV translates Strong's H6242 in the following manner: twenty (278x), twentieth (36x), sixscore (with H3967) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 315x
The KJV translates Strong's H6242 in the following manner: twenty (278x), twentieth (36x), sixscore (with H3967) (1x).
  1. twenty, twentieth

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֶשְׂרִים ʻesrîym, es-reem'; from H6235; twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth:—(six-) score, twenty(-ieth).
STRONGS H6242: Abbreviations
עֶשְׂרִים 315 noun plural indeclinable (a) twenty (ancient plural of עֶשֶׂר PräBAS i. 376; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Arabic bdb079701; Assyrian ešrâ; Sabean עשרי HomChrest. 48; Ethiopic bdb079702 Aramaic H6242 עשרין, bdb079703; Nabataean עשרין); —
I. as cardinal:
1. without other number:
a. usually followed by singular noun (especially שָׁנָה, אִישׁ, אַמָּה, etc.) Genesis 31:38; 1 Samuel 14:14; Exodus 38:18 + 64 times, + עֶשְׂרִים אֶלֶף 20,000 1 Chronicles 18:4 + 7 times + Ezekiel 45:1 (reading עֶשְׂרִים אָ֑לֶף, see עֶשֶׂר 2b).
b. followed by plural noun 2 Samuel 3:20; Exodus 36:23, 24, 25 + 4 times
†c. followed by singular noun collective 1 Kings 5:3.
d. plural noun precedes Genesis 32:15 (twice in verse); Genesis 32:16; 2 Chronicles 3:3 + 6 times
e. noun omitted Genesis 18:31 (twice in verse) (הָע׳), 1 Kings 6:2 + 6 times, as predicate Exodus 27:10 (twice in verse); Exodus 27:11 (twice in verse) + 4 times
†f. + בָּאַמָּה Zechariah 5:12 [Zechariah 5:2].
2. + other number:
a. with units, usually 20 + (with וְ) unit + singular noun Judges 10:2, 3; 1 Kings 14:20 + 58 times (including 20+1x1000, etc., + 27 times); noun omitted Joshua 15:32 + 2 times predicate; less often unit + 20 — Genesis 11:24; Exodus 38:24; Numbers 8:24 (all P) + 27 times; unit + 20 + בָּאַמָּה Ezekiel 40:21; Exodus 26:2; Exodus 36:9 (both P).
b. 20+unit+plural noun Numbers 7:8 (twice in verse) (P), 1 Chronicles 2:22 + 3 times Chronicles.
†c. plural noun + 20 + unit Joshua 19:30 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 12:29 (van d. H. 1 Chronicles 12:28).
d. with hundreds, 20 usually following; followed by singular noun 1 Kings 9:14; Genesis 6:3; Deuteronomy 31:2 + 7 times; noun omitted 2 Chronicles 3:4; Ezra 2:32 = Nehemiah 7:35; 20 + 100 (noun omitted) Numbers 7:86.
e. plural noun +100+20 1 Chronicles 15:5, 6; — compare further מֵאָה.
II. as ordinal:
1. 20 alone, בִּשְׁנַת ע׳ in the twentieth year 1 Kings 15:9 + 4 times; noun omitted Numbers 10:11 + 3 times
2.
a. 20+unit+singular noun Ezekiel 29:17; Ezekiel 40:1.
b. singular noun+20+unit Haggai 1:15; 2 Chronicles 7:10 +; singular noun+unit+20 Exodus 12:8; בִּשְׁנַת+20+unit 1 Kings 16:10, etc. — See references below H6235 עֶשֶׂר.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:3; 11:24; 18:31; 31:38; 32:15; 32:16

Exodus

12:8; 26:2; 27:10; 27:11; 36:9; 36:23; 36:24; 36:25; 38:18; 38:24

Numbers

7:8; 7:86; 8:24; 10:11

Deuteronomy

31:2

Joshua

15:32; 19:30

Judges

10:2; 10:3

1 Samuel

14:14

2 Samuel

3:20

1 Kings

5:3; 6:2; 9:14; 14:20; 15:9; 16:10

1 Chronicles

2:22; 12:28; 12:29; 15:5; 15:6; 18:4

2 Chronicles

3:3; 3:4; 7:10

Ezra

2:32

Nehemiah

7:35

Ezekiel

29:17; 40:1; 40:21; 45:1

Haggai

1:15

Zechariah

5:2

H6242

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6242 matches the Hebrew עֶשְׂרִים (ʿeśrîm),
which occurs 315 times in 281 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 6 (Num 7:86–1Ki 9:11)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:86 -

The twelve gold bowls full of incense each weighed four ounces measured by the standard sanctuary shekel. The total weight of the gold bowls was 3 pounds.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:88 -

All the livestock for the fellowship sacrifice totaled twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty male lambs a year old. This was the dedication gift for the altar after it was anointed.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:24 -

“In regard to the Levites: From twenty-five years old or more, a man enters the service in the work at the tent of meeting.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:11 -

During the second year, in the second month on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was lifted up above the tabernacle of the testimony.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:19 -

“You will eat, not for one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 -

“Your corpses will fall in this wilderness ​— ​all of you who were registered in the census, the entire number of you twenty years old or more ​— ​because you have complained about me.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:16 -

“You will pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your assessment: five shekels[fn] of silver by the standard sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:9 -

but those who died in the plague numbered twenty-four thousand.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:2 -

“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their ancestral families[fn] of those twenty years old or more who can serve in Israel’s army.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:4 -

“Take a census of those twenty years old or more, as the LORD had commanded Moses and the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:14 -

These were the Simeonite clans, numbering 22,200 men.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 -

Those registered were 23,000, every male one month old or more; they were not registered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:11 -

“‘Because they did not remain loyal to me, none of the men twenty years old or more who came up from Egypt will see the land I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ​— ​

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:39 -

Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:2 -

saying, “I am now 120 years old; I can no longer act as your leader.[fn] The LORD has told me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:7 -

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died; his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not left him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:32 -

Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon ​— ​twenty-nine cities in all, with their settlements.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:30 -

Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob ​— ​twenty-two cities, with their settlements.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:3 -

Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred iron chariots, and he harshly oppressed them twenty years.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 -

“Now announce to the troops, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’ ” So twenty-two thousand of the troops turned back, but ten thousand remained.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 -

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and with them was their army of about fifteen thousand men, who were all those left of the entire army of the people of the east. Those who had been killed were one hundred twenty thousand armed men.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:2 -

Tola judged Israel twenty-three years and when he died, was buried in Shamir.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:3 -

After him came Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 -

He defeated twenty of their cities with a great slaughter from Aroer all the way to the entrance of Minnith and to Abel-keramim. So the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:20 -

And he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:31 -

Then his brothers and his father’s whole family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. So he judged Israel twenty years.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:15 -

On that day the Benjaminites mobilized twenty-six thousand armed men from their cities, besides seven hundred fit young men rallied by the inhabitants of Gibeah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:21 -

The Benjaminites came out of Gibeah and slaughtered twenty-two thousand men of Israel on the field that day.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:35 -

The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 men of Benjamin; all were armed.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:46 -

All the Benjaminites who died that day were twenty-five thousand armed men; all were warriors.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:2 -

Time went by until twenty years had passed since the ark had been taken to Kiriath-jearim. Then the whole house of Israel longed for the LORD.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14 -

In that first assault Jonathan and his armor-bearer struck down about twenty men in a half-acre field.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:20 -

When Abner and twenty men came to David at Hebron, David held a banquet for him and his men.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:4 -

David captured seventeen hundred horsemen[fn] and twenty thousand foot soldiers from him, and he hamstrung all the horses and kept a hundred chariots.[fn]

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:5 -

When the Arameans of Damascus came to assist King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand Aramean men.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:10 -

“You, your sons, and your servants are to work the ground for him, and you are to bring in the crops so your master’s grandson will have food to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, is always to eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:6 -

When the Ammonites realized they had become repulsive to David, they hired twenty thousand foot soldiers from the Arameans of Beth-rehob and Zobah, one thousand men from the king of Maacah, and twelve thousand men from Tob.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:7 -

Israel’s army was defeated by David’s soldiers, and the slaughter there was vast that day ​— ​twenty thousand dead.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 -

There were a thousand men from Benjamin with him. Ziba, an attendant from the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and twenty servants also rushed down to the Jordan ahead of the king.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:20 -

At Gath there was still another battle. A huge man was there with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot ​— ​twenty-four in all. He, too, was descended from the giant.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:8 -

When they had gone through the whole land, they returned to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23 -

ten fattened cattle, twenty range cattle, and a hundred sheep and goats, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and pen-fed poultry,[fn]

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:11 -

and Solomon provided Hiram with one hundred twenty thousand bushels[fn] of wheat as food for his household and one hundred twenty thousand gallons[fn] of oil from crushed olives. Solomon did this for Hiram year after year.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:2 -

The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was ninety feet[fn] long, thirty feet[fn] wide, and forty-five feet[fn] high.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:3 -

The portico in front of the temple sanctuary was thirty feet long extending across the temple’s width, and fifteen feet deep[fn] in front of the temple.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:16 -

Then he lined thirty feet of the rear of the temple with cedar boards from the floor to the surface of the ceiling,[fn] and he built the interior as an inner sanctuary, the most holy place.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:20 -

The interior of the sanctuary was thirty feet long, thirty feet wide, and thirty feet high; he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the cedar altar.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:63 -

Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the LORD: twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep and goats. In this manner the king and all the Israelites dedicated the LORD’s temple.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:10 -

At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the two houses, the LORD’s temple and the royal palace ​— ​

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 -

King Hiram of Tyre having supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every wish ​— ​King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.


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