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Lexicon :: Strong's H705 - 'arbāʿîm

Aa
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 after the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan went on living for eight hundred and forty years, and had sons and daughters:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4 - For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:12 - And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17 - And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:6 - Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29 - And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:34 - And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

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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 47:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:28 - And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:3 - And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:35 - And the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they came to a land with people in it, till they came to the edge of the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:18

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

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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 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:21 - With their forty silver bases, two under every board.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.

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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 36:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:26 - With their forty silver bases, two bases for every board.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:8 - And let seven Sabbaths of years be numbered to you, seven times seven years; even the days of seven Sabbaths of years, that is forty-nine years;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - Forty-six thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Reuben were numbered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25 - Forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty of the tribe of Gad were numbered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33 - Forty thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Ephraim were numbered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:41 - Forty-one thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Asher were numbered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:11 - The number of his army was forty-six thousand, five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:15 - The number of his army was forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:19 - The number of his army was forty thousand, five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:28 - The number of his army was forty-one thousand, five hundred;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:25 - At the end of forty days they came back from viewing the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:34 - And as you went through the land viewing it for forty days, so for forty years, a year for every day, you will undergo punishment for your wrongdoing, and you will see that I am against you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:7 - These are the families of the Reubenites: their number was forty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:18 - These are the families of the sons of Gad as they were numbered, forty thousand, five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:41 - These are the sons of Benjamin by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:50 - These are the families of Naphtali by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:38 - And Aaron the priest went up into the mountain at the order of the Lord, and came to his death there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of 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 the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:3 - Now in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses gave to the children of Israel all the orders which the Lord had given him for them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:7 - For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:4 - Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:9 - When I had gone up into the mountain to be given the stones on which was recorded the agreement which the Lord made with you, I was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights without taking food or drinking water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:11 - Then at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me those stones, the stones of the agreement.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18 - And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:25 - So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty nights as I did at first; because the Lord had said that he would put an end to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:10 - And I was in the mountain, as at the first time, for forty days and forty nights; and again the ears of the Lord were open to my prayer, and he did not send destruction on you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:5 - For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet.

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