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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 2 / 3 (Jos 4:13–Neh 5:15)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:13 - About 40,000 ready for war passed over before the LORD for battle, to the plains of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:7 - I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:10 - And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41 - The cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the people of Israel were in all forty-eight cities with their pasturelands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:11 - So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8 - When new gods were chosen,
then war was in the gates.
Was shield or spear to be seen
among forty thousand in Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:31 - “So may all your enemies perish, O LORD!
But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.” And the land had rest for forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:28 - So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they raised their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - they said to him, “Then say Shibboleth,” and he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites fell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:14 - He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:1 - And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, so the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:18 - As soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:16 - For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:10 - Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:4 - David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:18 - And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 700 chariots, and 40,000 horsemen, and wounded Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:7 - And at the end of four[fn] years Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the LORD, in Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:11 - And the time that David reigned over Israel was forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:26 - Solomon also had 40,000[fn] stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:17 - The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:3 - And it was covered with cedar above the chambers that were on the forty-five pillars, fifteen in each row.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:38 - And he made ten basins of bronze. Each basin held forty baths, each basin measured four cubits, and there was a basin for each of the ten stands.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:42 - And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:21 - Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:10 - and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:8 - And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:24 - And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9 - So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camels’ loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:14 - He said, “Take them alive.” And they took them alive and slaughtered them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two persons, and he spared none of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:1 - In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash[fn] began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:23 - In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 5:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:18 - The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had valiant men who carried shield and sword, and drew the bow, expert in war, 44,760, able to go to war.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:36 - Of Asher 40,000 seasoned troops ready for battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:18 - And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 7,000 chariots and 40,000 foot soldiers, and put to death also Shophach the commander of their army.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31 - Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was chief of the Hebronites of whatever genealogy or fathers’ houses. (In the fortieth year of David’s reign search was made and men of great ability among them were found at Jazer in Gilead.)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:27 - The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:30 - Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:13 - So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:13 - And Asa slept with his fathers, dying in the forty-first year of his reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:2 - Ahaziah was twenty-two[fn] years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:1 - Joash[fn] was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:8 - The sons of Zattu, 945.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:10 - The sons of Bani, 642.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:24 - The sons of Azmaveth, 42.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:25 - The sons of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:34 - The sons of Jericho, 345.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:38 - The sons of Pashhur, 1,247.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:66 - Their horses were 736, their mules were 245,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:15 - The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration[fn] forty shekels[fn] of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

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