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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

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:13 - And Cainan lived after his begetting Maleleel, seven hundred and forty years, and he begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4 - For yet seven days having passed I bring rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every offspring which I have made from the face of all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:12

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

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17 - And the flood was upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and the water abounded greatly and bore up the ark, and it was lifted on high from off the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:6 - And it came to pass after forty days Noe opened the window of the ark which he had made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - But if the fifty righteous should be diminished to forty-five, wilt thou destroy the whole city because of the five wanting? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there forty-five.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29 - And he continued to speak to him still, and said, But if there should be found there forty? And he said, I will not destroy it for the forty's sake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - Abraam begot Isaac. And Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebecca, daughter of Bathuel the Syrian, out of Syrian Mesopotamia, sister of Laban the Syrian.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:34 - And Esau was forty years old; and he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beoch the [fn]Chettite, and Basemath, daughter of Helon the Chettite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:15 - (LXX 32:16) milch camels, and their foals, thirty, forty kine, ten bulls, twenty asses, and ten colts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:28 - And Jacob survived seventeen years in the land of Egypt; and Jacob's days of the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:3 - And they fulfilled forty days for him, for so are the days of embalming numbered; and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:35 - And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to the [fn]land they ate the manna, until they came to the region of Phœnicia.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:19 - And thou shalt make to the twenty posts forty silver sockets; two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post on both its sides.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:21 - and their forty silver sockets: two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post on both its sides.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - And Moses was there before the Lord forty days, and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water; and he wrote upon the tables these words of the covenant, the ten sayings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:8 - And thou shalt reckon to thyself seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and they shall be to thee seven weeks of years, nine and forty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - the numbering of them of the tribe of Ruben, was forty-six thousand and four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25 - (LXX 1:37) the numbering of them of the tribe of Gad, was forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33 - (LXX 1:31) the numbering of them of the tribe of Ephraim, was forty thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:41 - the numbering of them of the tribe of Aser, was forty and one thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:11 - His forces that were numbered, were forty-six thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:15 - His forces that were numbered, were forty-five thousand and six hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:19 - His forces that were numbered, are forty thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:28 - His forces that were numbered, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:25 - And they returned from thence, having surveyed the land, after forty days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your carcases be consumed in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:34 - According to the number of the days during which ye spied the land, forty days, a day for a year, ye shall bear your sins forty years, and ye shall know my fierce anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:7 - These are the families of Ruben; and their numbering was forty-three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:18 - (LXX 26:27) These are the families of the children of Gad according to their numbering, forty-four thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:41 - (LXX 26:45) These are the sons of Benjamin by their families according to their numbering, thirty-five thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:50 - These are the families of Nephthali, according to their numbering, forty thousand and three hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - And the Lord was very angry with Israel; and for forty years he caused them to wander in the wilderness, until all the generation which did evil [fn]in the sight of the Lord was extinct.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:38 - And Aaron the priest went up by the command of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year of the departure of the children of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - And ye shall give the cities to the Levites, the six cities of refuge which ye shall give for the slayer to flee thither, and in addition to these, forty-two cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - Ye shall give to the Levites in all forty-eight cities, them and 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, Moses spoke to all the children of Israel, according to all things which the Lord commanded him for them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:7 - For the Lord our God has blessed thee in every work of thy hands. Consider how thou wentest through that great and terrible wilderness: behold, the Lord thy God has been with thee forty years; thou didst not lack any thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee in the wilderness, that he might afflict thee, and try thee, and that the things in thine heart might be made manifest, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:4 - Thy garments grew not old from off thee, thy shoes were not worn from off thee, thy feet were not painfully hardened, lo! these forty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:9 - when I went up into the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant, which the Lord made with you, and I was in the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:11 - And it came to pass after forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18 - And I made my petition before the Lord as also at the first forty days and forty nights: I ate no bread and drank no water, on account of all your sins which ye sinned in doing evil before the Lord God to provoke him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:25 - And I prayed before the Lord forty days and forty nights, the number that I prayed before, for the Lord said that he would utterly destroy you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:10 - And I [fn]remained in the mount forty days and forty nights: and the Lord heard me at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - And they shall scourge him with forty stripes in number, they shall not inflict more; for if thou shouldest scourge him with more stripes beyond these stripes, thy brother will be disgraced before thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:5 - (LXX 29:4) And he led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments did not grow old, and your sandals were not worn away off your feet.

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