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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)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:86 - the twelve gold pans, full of incense, weighing 10 shekels apiece, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, all the gold of the pans 120 H6242 shekels;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:88

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:88 - and all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace offerings 24 H6242 bulls, all the rams 60, the male goats 60, the male lambs one year old 60. 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 is what applies to the Levites: from twenty-five H6242 years old and upward [fn]they shall enter to perform their duty in the service of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:11 -

Now it happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth H6242 of the month, that the cloud was lifted from over the [fn]tabernacle of the testimony;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:19 - ‘You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty H6242 days,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all your [fn]numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty H6242 years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:16 - “Now as to their redemption price, from a month old you shall redeem them, by your valuation, five [fn]shekels in silver, according to the [fn]shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty H6242 gerahs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:9 - So those who died by the plague were 24,000 H6242.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:2 - “Take a [fn]census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel from twenty H6242 years old and upward, by their fathers’ households, whoever is able to go out to war in Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:4 - “Take a census of the people from twenty H6242 years old and upward, as Yahweh has commanded Moses.”

Now the sons of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:14 -

These are the families of the Simeonites, 22,200 H6242.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:62

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 - And those who were numbered of them were 23,000 H6242, every male from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the sons of Israel since no inheritance was given to them among the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:11 - ‘None of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; for they did not follow Me fully,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:39 -

Now Aaron was 123 H6242 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 H6242 years old today; I am no longer able to come and go, and Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not cross this Jordan.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:7 - Now Moses was 120 H6242 years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:32 - and Lebaoth and Shilhim and Ain and Rimmon; in all, twenty-nine H6242 cities with their villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:30 - Included also were Ummah and Aphek and Rehob; twenty-two H6242 cities with their villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:3 - Then the sons of Israel cried to Yahweh; for he had 900 iron chariots, and he oppressed the sons of Israel severely for twenty H6242 years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 - “So now, [fn]come, call out in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is afraid and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So 22,000 H6242 people returned, but 10,000 remained.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 -

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their camps with them, about 15,000 men, all who were left of the entire camp of the sons of the east; for the fallen were 120,000 H6242 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 H6242 years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:3 -

After him, Jair the Gileadite arose and judged Israel twenty-two H6242 years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - And he struck them with a very great slaughter from Aroer [fn]to the entrance of Minnith, twenty H6242 cities, and as far as Abel-keramim. So the sons of Ammon were subdued before the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:20 - And he judged Israel twenty H6242 years in the days of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:31 - Then his brothers and all his father’s household came down, carried him, brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the tomb of Manoah his father. Thus he had judged Israel twenty H6242 years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:15 - And from the cities on that day the sons of Benjamin were [fn]numbered, 26,000 H6242 men who draw the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah who were [fn]numbered, 700 choice men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:21 - Then the sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and destroyed to the ground on that day 22,000 H6242 men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:35 - Then Yahweh [fn]defeated Benjamin before Israel, so that the sons of Israel destroyed 25,100 H6242 men of Benjamin that day, all [fn]who drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:46

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:46 - So all of Benjamin who fell that day were 25,000 H6242 men who drew the sword; all these were valiant men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:2 - Now it happened from the day when the ark remained at Kiriath-jearim, that the time was long; it was twenty H6242 years. And all the house of Israel lamented after Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14 - And that first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor bearer made was about twenty H6242 men within about half a furrow in an [fn]acre of land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:20 -

Then Abner and twenty H6242 men with him came to David at Hebron. And 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 captured from him 1,700 horsemen and 20,000 H6242 foot soldiers; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but left enough of them for 100 chariots.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:5 - Then the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, king of Zobah. And David struck down 22,000 H6242 Arameans.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:10 - “And you and your sons and your servants shall cultivate the land for him, and you shall bring in the produce so that your master’s grandson may have food and eat of it; nevertheless Mephibosheth your master’s grandson shall [fn]eat at my table continually.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty H6242 servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:6 -

Then the sons of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David. So the sons of Ammon sent and hired the Arameans of Beth-rehob and the Arameans of Zobah, 20,000 H6242 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob with 12,000 men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:7 - And the people of Israel were [fn]defeated there before the servants of David, and the slaughter there that day was great, 20,000 H6242 men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 - Now there were one thousand men of Benjamin with him, with Ziba the young man of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty H6242 servants with him; and they rushed to the Jordan before the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:20 - Then there was war at Gath again, and there was a man of great stature who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four H6242 in number; and he also had been born to the [fn]giants.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:8 - So they had gone about through the whole land, and they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty H6242 days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23 - ten fat oxen, twenty H6242 [fn]pasture-fed oxen, one hundred sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 5:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:11 - Solomon then gave Hiram [fn]20,000 H6242 kors of wheat as food for his household, and [fn]20 H6242 kors of beaten oil; thus Solomon would give Hiram year by year.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:2 - As for the house which King Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was [fn]sixty cubits and its width twenty H6242 cubits and its height thirty cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:3 - And the porch in front of the nave of the house was twenty H6242 cubits [fn]in length, [fn]corresponding to the width of the house, and its [fn]depth along the front of the house was ten cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:16 - And he built twenty H6242 cubits on the rear part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the [fn]ceiling; he built them for it on the inside as an inner sanctuary, as the Holy of Holies.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:20 - Now [fn]the inner sanctuary was twenty H6242 cubits in length, twenty H6242 cubits in width, and twenty H6242 cubits in height, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the altar with cedar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:63

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:63 - And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, 22,000 H6242 oxen and 120,000 H6242 sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:10 -

Now it happened that at the end of twenty H6242 years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king’s house

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - (Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold according to all his desire), that King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty H6242 cities in the land of Galilee.

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