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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
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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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of Zattu845

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of Binnui648

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of Beth Azmaveth42

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of Kiriath Jearim, Kephirah and Beeroth743

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of Jericho345

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of Pashhur1,247

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the descendants of Asaph148

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the descendants of
Delaiah, Tobiah and Nekoda642

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:67 - besides their 7,337 male and female slaves; and they also had 245 male and female singers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:21 - For forty years you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing, their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:13 - and his associates, who were heads of families—242 men; Amashsai son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:16 - After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:10 - For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:30 - in his twenty-third year, 745 Jews taken into exile by Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard. There were 4,600 people in all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:6 - “After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin of the people of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:11 - The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - I will make the land of Egypt desolate among devastated lands, and her cities will lie desolate forty years among ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:13 - “ ‘Yet this is what the Sovereign LORD says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations where they were scattered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:2 - The entrance was ten cubits[fn] wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were five cubits[fn] wide. He also measured the main hall; it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:22 - In the four corners of the outer court were enclosed[fn] courts, forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide;[fn] each of the courts in the four corners was the same size.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:10 - I brought you up out of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness to give you the land of the Amorites.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:4 - Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”

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