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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 - Kenan lived after he fathered Mahalalel 840 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4 - For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing[fn] that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17 - The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:6 - At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29 - Again he spoke to him and said, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.”

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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:15 - thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

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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 147 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:3 - Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:35 - The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:18 - Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:19 - and forty bases of silver you shall make under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under the next frame for its two tenons;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:21 - and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame, and two bases under the next frame.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:24 - And he made forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under the next frame for its two tenons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:26 - and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame and two bases under the next frame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:8 - “You shall count seven weeks[fn] of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - those listed of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25 - those listed of the tribe of Gad were 45,650.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33 - those listed of the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:41 - those listed of the tribe of Asher were 41,500.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:11 - his company as listed being 46,500.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:15 - his company as listed being 45,650.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:19 - his company as listed being 40,500.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:28 - his company as listed being 41,500.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:34 - According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:7 - These are the clans of the Reubenites, and those listed were 43,730.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:18 - These are the clans of the sons of Gad as they were listed, 40,500.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:41 - These are the sons of Benjamin according to their clans, and those listed were 45,600.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:50 - These are the clans of Naphtali according to their clans, and those listed were 45,400.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:13

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:38 - And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the LORD and died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - “The cities that you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - All the cities that you give to the Levites shall be forty-eight, with their pasturelands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:3 - In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:7 - For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:4 - Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:9 - When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:11 - And at the end of forty days and forty nights the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18 - Then I lay prostrate before the LORD as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:25 - “So I lay prostrate before the LORD for these forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:10 - “I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the LORD listened to me that time also. The LORD was unwilling to destroy you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:5 - I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.

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