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Lexicon :: Strong's H6242 - ʿeśrîm

Aa
עֶשְׂרִים
Transliteration
ʿeśrîm
Pronunciation
es-reem'
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1711e

Strong’s Definitions

עֶשְׂרִים ʻesrîym, es-reem'; from H6235; twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth:—(six-) score, twenty(-ieth).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 315x

The KJV translates Strong's H6242 in the following manner: twenty (278x), twentieth (36x), sixscore (with H3967) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 315x
The KJV translates Strong's H6242 in the following manner: twenty (278x), twentieth (36x), sixscore (with H3967) (1x).

  1. twenty, twentieth

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֶשְׂרִים ʻesrîym, es-reem'; from H6235; twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth:—(six-) score, twenty(-ieth).
STRONGS H6242: Abbreviations
עֶשְׂרִים 315 noun plural indeclinable (a) twenty (ancient plural of עֶשֶׂר PräBAS i. 376; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Arabic bdb079701; Assyrian ešrâ; Sabean עשרי HomChrest. 48; Ethiopic bdb079702 Aramaic H6242 עשרין, bdb079703; Nabataean עשרין); —
I. as cardinal:
1. without other number:
a. usually followed by singular noun (especially שָׁנָה, אִישׁ, אַמָּה, etc.) Genesis 31:38; 1 Samuel 14:14; Exodus 38:18 + 64 times, + עֶשְׂרִים אֶלֶף 20,000 1 Chronicles 18:4 + 7 times + Ezekiel 45:1 (reading עֶשְׂרִים אָ֑לֶף, see עֶשֶׂר 2b).
b. followed by plural noun 2 Samuel 3:20; Exodus 36:23, 24, 25 + 4 times
†c. followed by singular noun collective 1 Kings 5:3.
d. plural noun precedes Genesis 32:15 (twice in verse); Genesis 32:16; 2 Chronicles 3:3 + 6 times
e. noun omitted Genesis 18:31 (twice in verse) (הָע׳), 1 Kings 6:2 + 6 times, as predicate Exodus 27:10 (twice in verse); Exodus 27:11 (twice in verse) + 4 times
†f. + בָּאַמָּה Zechariah 5:12 [Zechariah 5:2].
2. + other number:
a. with units, usually 20 + (with וְ) unit + singular noun Judges 10:2, 3; 1 Kings 14:20 + 58 times (including 20+1x1000, etc., + 27 times); noun omitted Joshua 15:32 + 2 times predicate; less often unit + 20 — Genesis 11:24; Exodus 38:24; Numbers 8:24 (all P) + 27 times; unit + 20 + בָּאַמָּה Ezekiel 40:21; Exodus 26:2; Exodus 36:9 (both P).
b. 20+unit+plural noun Numbers 7:8 (twice in verse) (P), 1 Chronicles 2:22 + 3 times Chronicles.
†c. plural noun + 20 + unit Joshua 19:30 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 12:29 (van d. H. 1 Chronicles 12:28).
d. with hundreds, 20 usually following; followed by singular noun 1 Kings 9:14; Genesis 6:3; Deuteronomy 31:2 + 7 times; noun omitted 2 Chronicles 3:4; Ezra 2:32 = Nehemiah 7:35; 20 + 100 (noun omitted) Numbers 7:86.
e. plural noun +100+20 1 Chronicles 15:5, 6; — compare further מֵאָה.
II. as ordinal:
1. 20 alone, בִּשְׁנַת ע׳ in the twentieth year 1 Kings 15:9 + 4 times; noun omitted Numbers 10:11 + 3 times
2.
a. 20+unit+singular noun Ezekiel 29:17; Ezekiel 40:1.
b. singular noun+20+unit Haggai 1:15; 2 Chronicles 7:10 +; singular noun+unit+20 Exodus 12:8; בִּשְׁנַת+20+unit 1 Kings 16:10, etc. — See references below H6235 עֶשֶׂר.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:3; 11:24; 18:31; 31:38; 32:15; 32:16

Exodus

12:8; 26:2; 27:10; 27:11; 36:9; 36:23; 36:24; 36:25; 38:18; 38:24

Numbers

7:8; 7:86; 8:24; 10:11

Deuteronomy

31:2

Joshua

15:32; 19:30

Judges

10:2; 10:3

1 Samuel

14:14

2 Samuel

3:20

1 Kings

5:3; 6:2; 9:14; 14:20; 15:9; 16:10

1 Chronicles

2:22; 12:28; 12:29; 15:5; 15:6; 18:4

2 Chronicles

3:3; 3:4; 7:10

Ezra

2:32

Nehemiah

7:35

Ezekiel

29:17; 40:1; 40:21; 45:1

Haggai

1:15

Zechariah

5:2

H6242

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6242 matches the Hebrew עֶשְׂרִים (ʿeśrîm),
which occurs 315 times in 281 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 6 (Gen 6:3–Num 3:47)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:3 - And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:14 - And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:24 - And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31 - And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:1 - Now the years of Sarah's life were a hundred and twenty-seven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:38 - These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:14 - Two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred females and twenty males from the sheep,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:15 - Thirty camels with their young ones, forty cows, ten oxen, twenty asses, and ten young asses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28 - And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18 - In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:2 - Every curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:18 - These are the boards needed for the house; twenty boards for the south side,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:19 - With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases under every board to take its tongues.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:20 - And twenty boards for the second side of the house on the north,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:10 - Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:11 - And on the north side in the same way, hangings a hundred cubits long, with twenty pillars of brass on bases of brass; their hooks and their bands are to be of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:16 - And across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the best linen, made of needlework of blue and purple and red, with four pillars and four bases.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:13 - And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:14 - Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:9 - Every curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:23 - They made twenty boards for the south side of the House:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:24 - And for these twenty boards, forty silver bases, two bases under every board, to take its tongues.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:25 - And for the second side of the House, on the north, they made twenty boards,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:10 - Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass; and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:11 - And for the north side. hangings a hundred cubits long, on twenty brass pillars in brass bases, with silver hooks and bands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:18 - And the curtain for the doorway of the open space was of the best linen, with designs of blue and purple and red in needlework; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high, to go with the hangings round the sides.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:24 - The gold used for all the different work done for the holy place, the gold which was given, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - A beka, that is, half a shekel by the holy scale, for everyone who was numbered; there were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men of twenty years old and over.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:3 - And you will put the value of a male from twenty years to sixty years old at fifty shekels of silver, by the scale of the holy place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:5 - And if the person is from five to twenty years old, the value will be twenty shekels for a male, and ten for a female.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:25 - And let all your values be based on the shekel of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:3 - All those of twenty years old and over, who are able to go to war in Israel, are to be numbered by you and Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - And they got together all the people on the first day of the second month; and everyone made clear his family and his father's house, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and over.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 - The generations of the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:22 - The generations of the sons of Simeon were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:24 - The generations of the sons of Gad were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:26 - The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:28 - The generations of the sons of Issachar were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:30 - The generations of the sons of Zebulun were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:32 - The generations of the sons of Joseph were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:34 - The generations of the sons of Manasseh were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:36 - The generations of the sons of Benjamin were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:38 - The generations of the sons of Dan were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years and over who was able to go to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:40 - The generations of the sons of Asher were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:42 - The generations of the sons of Naphtali were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:45 - So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who were able to go to war,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39 - All the Levites numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord, all the males of one month old and over numbered in the order of their families, were twenty-two thousand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:43 - Every first son from a month old and over was numbered by name, and the number came to twenty-two thousand, two hundred and seventy-three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:47 - Will be five shekels for every one, by the scale of the holy place (the shekel is twenty gerahs);

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