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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 3 / 3 (Neh 7:13–Jon 3:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:13 - The sons of Zattu, 845.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:15 - The sons of Binnui, 648.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:28 - The men of Beth-azmaveth, 42.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:29 - The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:36 - The sons of Jericho, 345.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:41 - The sons of Pashhur, 1,247.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:44 - The singers: the sons of Asaph, 148.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:62 - the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, 642.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:67 - besides their male and female servants, of whom there were 7,337. And they had 245 singers, male and female.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:21 - Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:13 - and his brothers, heads of fathers’ houses, 242; and Amashsai, the son of Azarel, son of Ahzai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:16 - And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, four generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:10 - For forty years I loathed that generation
and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,
and they have not known my ways.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:30 - in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Judeans 745 persons; all the persons were 4,600.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:6 - And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:11 - No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:13 - “For thus says the Lord GOD: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:2 - And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. And he measured the length of the nave,[fn] forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:22 - in the four corners of the court were small[fn] courts, forty cubits[fn] long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:10 - Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt
and led you forty years in the wilderness,
to possess the land of the Amorite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:25 - “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:4 - Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”

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