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Lexicon :: Strong's H705 - 'arbāʿîm

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אַרְבָּעִים
Transliteration
'arbāʿîm
Pronunciation
ar-baw-eem'
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Part of Speech
plural adjective, noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2106b

Strong’s Definitions

אַרְבָּעִים ʼarbâʻîym, ar-baw-eem'; multiple of H702; forty:—forty.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 136x

The KJV translates Strong's H705 in the following manner: forty (132x), fortieth (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 136x
The KJV translates Strong's H705 in the following manner: forty (132x), fortieth (4x).

  1. forty

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַרְבָּעִים ʼarbâʻîym, ar-baw-eem'; multiple of H702; forty:—forty.
STRONGS H705: Abbreviations
אַרְבָּעִים 136 plural noun indeclinable a forty; —
1. sine num. al.:
a. usually apposition before noun, especially שָׁנָה, יוֺם (singular): אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה Judges 3:11; 1 Samuel 4:18; Amos 2:10; Amos 5:25 29 times;יוֺם א׳ Genesis 7:17; 1 Kings 19:8; Jonah 3:4 6 times,יוֺם א׳ לַיְלָה וְא׳ Genesis 7:4, 12; Exodus 24:18 7 times; also בַּת א׳ 1 Kings 7:38, גָּמָל א׳ 2 Kings 8:9, אַמָּה א׳ Ezekiel 41:2 and (אַמָּה omitted) Ezekiel 46:22, but בָּאַמָּה א׳ 1 Kings 6:17 (v: אַמָּה); אֶלֶף א׳ Numbers 1:33; Numbers 2:19; Numbers 26:18; Joshua 4:13; Judges 5:8; 2 Samuel 10:18; 1 Kings 5:6; 1 Chronicles 12:37 (van d. H. 1 Chronicles 12:36), 1 Chronicles 19:18 (see also below); rarely followed by plural noun, בָּנִים א׳ Judges 12:14, אֲדָנִים א׳ Exodus 26:19, 21; Exodus 36:24, 26 (P). — (As round number Genesis 7:17; Judges 3:11; Judges 5:31; Judges 8:28; 1 Samuel 4:18 +).
b. after plural noun, א׳ פָּרוֹת Genesis 32:16 (E), שְׁקָלִים א׳ Nehemiah 5:15.
c. noun omitted Genesis 18:29, הָא׳ Genesis 18:29; יַכֶּנּוּ א׳ Deuteronomy 25:3 forty (blows) may he smite him.
2. with other numbers:
a. before unit, + singular noun:, 40+ 1שָׁנָה 1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 15:10; 2 Kings 14:23; 402שָׁנָה 2 Chronicles 22:20, אִישׁ 2 Kings 10:14, עִיר Numbers 35:6, + אֶלֶף Judges 12:6; 405שָׁנָה Joshua 14:10 (JE), etc. (12 times); + plural noun יְלָדִים 2 Kings 2:24; after plural noun הָעַמּוּדִים 405 1 Kings 7:3; noun omitted 40+5 Genesis 18:28, compare Ezra 2:24 = Nehemiah 7:28.
b. after unit, 9+ 40שָׁנָה Leviticus 25:8 (H); 1+ 40אֶלֶף Numbers 1:41; Numbers 2:28, etc. (9 times Numbers, P).
c. with hundreds, 40 שָׁנָה +800שָׁנָה Genesis 5:18 (P); 100+ 40שָׁנָה Job 42:16; + units, 7 שָׁנִים +40 +100שָׁנָה Genesis 47:28 (P); but (Ezra Nehemiah, mostly predicate, without noun), 900 +40 +5 Ezra 2:8, compare Ezra 2:25; Nehemiah 7:62, and (א׳ without וְ) 600, +40 +2 Ezra 2:10, see also || Nehemiah 7:15; Ezra 2:34 = Nehemiah 7:36; Ezra 2:66 = Nehemiah 7:68 (ver. omitted Baer Gi), Nehemiah 7:13, 29, 44; Nehemiah 1000, 200, 40 +7 Ezra 2:38 = Nehemiah 7:41; plural noun 200 +40 +5 Nehemiah 7:67, plural noun 200, 40 + 2; Nehemiah 11:13; also singular noun נֶפֶשׁ 700, 40 +5 Jeremiah 52:30.
3. as ordinal, שָׁנָה בְּא׳ Deuteronomy 1:3 in the fortieth year; also בִּשְׁנַת הָא׳ Numbers 33:38; 1 Chronicles 26:31; וְאַחַת בִּשְׁנַת א׳ 2 Chronicles 16:13 in the forty-first year
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

5:18; 7:4; 7:12; 7:17; 7:17; 18:28; 18:29; 18:29; 32:16; 47:28

Exodus

24:18; 26:19; 26:21; 36:24; 36:26

Leviticus

25:8

Numbers

1:33; 1:41; 2:19; 2:28; 26:18; 33:38; 35:6

Deuteronomy

1:3; 25:3

Joshua

4:13; 14:10

Judges

3:11; 3:11; 5:8; 5:31; 8:28; 12:6; 12:14

1 Samuel

4:18; 4:18

2 Samuel

10:18

1 Kings

5:6; 6:17; 7:3; 7:38; 14:21; 15:10; 19:8

2 Kings

2:24; 8:9; 10:14; 14:23

1 Chronicles

12:36; 12:37; 19:18; 26:31

2 Chronicles

16:13

Ezra

2:8; 2:10; 2:24; 2:25; 2:34; 2:38; 2:66

Nehemiah

5:15; 7:13; 7:15; 7:28; 7:29; 7:36; 7:41; 7:44; 7:62; 7:67; 7:68; 11:13

Job

42:16

Jeremiah

52:30

Ezekiel

41:2; 46:22

Amos

2:10; 5:25

Jonah

3:4

H705

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Strong's Number H705 matches the Hebrew אַרְבָּעִים ('arbāʿîm),
which occurs 135 times in 123 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 5:13–Deu 29:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:13 - and Kenan lived after he begat Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4 - For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:12 - And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:6 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29 - And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty’s sake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:34 - And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:15 - thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:28 - And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty and seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:3 - And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:35 - And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:18 - And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:19 - And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:21 - and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:24 - And he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:26 - and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:8 - And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and there shall be unto thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty and nine years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:41 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:11 - And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:15 - And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:19 - And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:28 - And his hosts, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:25 - And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:34 - After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:7 - These are the families of the Reubenites; and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:18 - These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:41 - These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:50 - These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - And Jehovah’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of Jehovah, was consumed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:38 - And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of Jehovah, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall give for the manslayer to flee unto: and besides them ye shall give forty and two cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them shall ye give with their suburbs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:3 - And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that Jehovah had given him in commandment unto them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:7 - For Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand; he hath known thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:4 - Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:9 - When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:11 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Jehovah gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18 - And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:25 - So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:10 - And I stayed in the mount, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also; Jehovah would not destroy thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:5 - And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed old upon thy foot.

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