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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 1 / 6 (Gen 6:3–Num 3:47)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:3 - Then Yahweh said, “My Spirit shall not [fn]strive with man forever [fn]because he indeed is flesh; [fn]nevertheless his days shall be 120 H6242 years.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:14 - In the second month, on the twenty-seventh H6242 day of the month, the earth was dry.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:24 -

Nahor lived 29 H6242 years and became the father of Terah;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31 - And he said, “Now behold, I have [fn]ventured to speak to the Lord; suppose twenty H6242 are found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it on account of the twenty H6242.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:1 -

And [fn]Sarah lived 127 H6242 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:38 - “These twenty H6242 years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - “These twenty H6242 years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:14 - two hundred female goats and twenty H6242 male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty H6242 rams,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:15 - thirty milking camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty H6242 female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28 - Then some Midianite traders passed by, so they pulled him up and lifted Joseph out of the pit and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for [fn]twenty H6242 shekels of silver. Thus they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18 - ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first H6242 day of the month at evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:2 - “The length of each curtain shall be [fn]twenty-eight H6242 cubits, and the width of each curtain four [fn]cubits; all the curtains shall have [fn]the same measurements.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:18 - “You shall make the boards for the tabernacle: twenty H6242 boards [fn]for the south side.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:19 - “You shall make forty bases of silver under the twenty H6242 boards, two bases under one board for its two tenons, and two bases under another board for its two tenons;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:20 - and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty H6242 boards,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:10 - and its pillars shall be twenty H6242, with their twenty H6242 bases of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their [fn]bands shall be of silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:11 - “Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its twenty H6242 pillars with their twenty H6242 bases of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:16 - “And as for the gate of the court there shall be a screen of [fn]twenty H6242 cubits, of [fn]blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of a [fn]weaver, with their four pillars and their four bases.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:13 - “This is what everyone who [fn]is numbered shall give: half a [fn]shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty H6242 [fn]gerahs), half a shekel as a [fn]contribution to Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:14 - “Everyone who [fn]is numbered, from twenty H6242 years old and over, shall give the [fn]contribution to Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:9 - The length of each curtain was [fn]twenty-eight H6242 cubits and the width of each curtain four [fn]cubits; all the curtains had [fn]the same measurements.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:23 - And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty H6242 boards [fn]for the south side;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:24 - and he made forty bases of silver under the twenty H6242 boards; two bases under one board for its two tenons and two bases under another board for its two tenons.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:25 - Then for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty H6242 boards,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:10 - their twenty H6242 pillars, and their twenty H6242 bases, made of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their [fn]bands were of silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:11 - For the north side there were one hundred cubits; their twenty H6242 pillars and their twenty H6242 bases were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:18 - The screen of the gate of the court was the work of the [fn]weaver, of [fn]blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen. And the length was [fn]twenty H6242 cubits and the [fn]height was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the court.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:24 -

All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the wave offering, was [fn]29 H6242 talents and [fn]730 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - a beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for each one who passed over to those who were [fn]numbered, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, for 603,550 men.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:3 - ‘If your valuation is of the male from twenty H6242 years even to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be [fn]fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:5 - ‘If it be from five years even to twenty H6242 years old then your valuation for the male shall be twenty H6242 shekels and for the female ten shekels.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:25 - ‘Every valuation of yours, moreover, shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty H6242 [fn]gerahs.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:3 - from twenty H6242 years old and upward, whoever is able to go out to war in Israel, you and Aaron shall [fn]number them by their armies.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - and they assembled all the congregation together on the first of the second month. Then they registered by genealogy in their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, head by head,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 -

Now the sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty H6242 years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:22 -

Of the sons of Simeon, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, their numbered men, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty H6242 years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:24 -

Of the sons of Gad, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:26 -

Of the sons of Judah, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:28 -

Of the sons of Issachar, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:30 -

Of the sons of Zebulun, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:32 -

Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons of Ephraim, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:34 -

Of the sons of Manasseh, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:36 -

Of the sons of Benjamin, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:38 -

Of the sons of Dan, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:40 -

Of the sons of Asher, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:42 -

Of the sons of Naphtali, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:45 - So all the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers’ households, from twenty H6242 years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war in Israel,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39 - All the numbered men of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the [fn]command of Yahweh by their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000 H6242.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:43 - and all the firstborn males by the number of names from a month old and upward, for their numbered men were 22,273 H6242.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:47 - you shall take five [fn]shekels apiece, per head; you shall take them in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty H6242 [fn]gerahs),

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