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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:86 - the twelve golden dishes, full of incense, weighing 10 shekels apiece according to the shekel of the sanctuary, all the gold of the dishes being 120 shekels;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:88

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:88 - and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:24 - “This applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they[fn] shall come to do duty in the service of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:11 - In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:19 - You shall not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:16 - And their redemption price (at a month old you shall redeem them) you shall fix at five shekels[fn] in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:9 - Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:2 - “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all in Israel who are able to go to war.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:4 - “Take a census of the people,[fn] from twenty years old and upward,” as the LORD commanded Moses. The people of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:14 - These are the clans of the Simeonites, 22,200.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:62

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 - And those listed were 23,000, every male from a month old and upward. For they were not listed among the people of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:11 - ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:39 - And Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:2 - And he said to them, “I am 120 years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:7 - Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:32 - Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon: in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:30 - Ummah, Aphek and Rehob—twenty-two cities with their villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:3 - Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 - Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead.’” Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000 remained.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 - Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men who drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:2 - And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried at Shamir.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:3 - After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - And he struck them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:20 - And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:31 - Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:15 - And the people of Benjamin mustered out of their cities on that day 26,000 men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who mustered 700 chosen men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:21 - The people of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and destroyed on that day 22,000 men of the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:35 - And the LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel, and the people of Israel destroyed 25,100 men of Benjamin that day. All these were men who drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:46

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:46 - So all who fell that day of Benjamin were 25,000 men who drew the sword, all of them men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:2 - From the day that the ark was lodged at Kiriath-jearim, a long time passed, some twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14 - And that first strike, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, killed about twenty men within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre[fn] of land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:20 - When Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron, David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:4 - And David took from him 1,700 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses but left enough for 100 chariots.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:5 - And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down 22,000 men of the Syrians.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:10 - And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce, that your master’s grandson may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth your master’s grandson shall always eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:6 - When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob, 12,000 men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:7 - And the men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the loss there was great on that day, twenty thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 - And with him were a thousand men from Benjamin. And Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before the king,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:20 - And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended from the giants.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:8 - So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23 - ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 5:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:11 - while Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors[fn] of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000[fn] cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:2 - The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits[fn] long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:3 - The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:16 - He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:20 - The inner sanctuary[fn] was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid[fn] an altar of cedar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:63

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:63 - Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:10 - At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king’s house,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

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