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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 Box Num 7:86

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:86 - The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty 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 the peace offerings were twenty H6242 and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:24 - This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty H6242 and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:11 - And it came to pass on the twentieth H6242 day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:19 - Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty H6242 days;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:16 - And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty H6242 gerahs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:9 - And those that died in the plague were twenty H6242 and four thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:2 - Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:4 - Take the sum of the people, from twenty H6242 years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:14 - These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty H6242 and two thousand and two hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:62

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 - And those that were numbered of them were twenty H6242 and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:11 - Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto 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 an hundred and twenty H6242 and three years old when he died in mount Hor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:2 - And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty H6242 years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:7 - And Moses was an hundred and twenty H6242 years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:32 - And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty H6242 and nine, with their villages:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:30

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:3 - And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty H6242 years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 - Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty H6242 and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 - Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty H6242 thousand men that drew sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:2 - And he judged Israel twenty H6242 and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:3 - And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty H6242 and two years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty H6242 cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children 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 H6242 years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:31 - Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty H6242 years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:15 - And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty H6242 and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:21 - And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty H6242 and two thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:35 - And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty H6242 and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:46

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:46 - So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty H6242 and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:2 - And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty H6242 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 slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty H6242 men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:20 - So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty H6242 men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:4 - And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty H6242 thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:5 - And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty H6242 thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:10 - Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty H6242 servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:6 - And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty H6242 thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:7 - Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty H6242 thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 - And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty H6242 servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:20 - And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty H6242 in number; and he also was born to the giant.

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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 H6242 days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23 - Ten fat oxen, and twenty H6242 oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 5:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:11 - And Solomon gave Hiram twenty H6242 thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty H6242 measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:2 - And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty H6242 cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:3 - And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty H6242 cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:16 - And he built twenty H6242 cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:20 - And the oracle in the forepart was twenty H6242 cubits in length, and twenty H6242 cubits in breadth, and twenty H6242 cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:63

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:63 - And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty H6242 thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty H6242 thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:10 - And it came to pass at the end of twenty H6242 years, when 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 - (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty H6242 cities in the land of Galilee.

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