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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

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Strong's Number H6242 matches the Hebrew עֶשְׂרִים (ʿeśrîm),
which occurs 19 times in 17 verses in '2Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:42 - A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, “Give to the men, that they may eat.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:26 - Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah; she was a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:36 - The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:6 - But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had made no repairs on the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 13:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:1 - In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 14:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:2 - He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:1 - In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:27 - In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:30 - Then Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah and struck him down and put him to death and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:33 - He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:2 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God, as his father David had done,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:2 - He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:19 - Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:31 - Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:36 - Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:18 - Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 - And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed[fn] Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison.
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