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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 2 / 3 (Jos 4:13–Neh 5:15)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:13 - About forty thousand prepared for war crossed over before the LORD for battle, to the plains of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD—to whom the LORD swore that He would not show them the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, “a land flowing with milk and honey.”[fn]

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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 back word to him as it was in my heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:10 - “And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41 - All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their common-lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:11

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8 - They chose new gods;
Then there was war in the gates;
Not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:31 - “Thus let all Your enemies perish, O LORD!
But let those who love Him be like the sun
When it comes out in full strength.”
So the land had rest for forty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:28 - Thus Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted their heads no more. And the country was quiet for forty years in the days of Gideon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - then they would say to him, “Then say, ‘Shibboleth’!” And he would say, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. Then they would take him and kill him at the fords of the Jordan. There fell at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:14

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:1 - Again the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:18 - Then it happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell off the seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:16 - And the Philistine drew near and presented himself forty days, morning and evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:10

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 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 Box2Sa 10:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:18 - Then the Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand horsemen of the Syrians, and struck Shobach the commander of their army, who died there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:7 - Now it came to pass after forty[fn] years that Absalom said to the king, “Please, let me go to Hebron and pay the vow which I made to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:11 - The period that David reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years he reigned in Hebron, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:26 - Solomon had forty[fn] thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:17 - And in front of it the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:3 - And it was paneled with cedar above the beams that were on forty-five pillars, fifteen to a row.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:38 - Then he made ten lavers of bronze; each laver contained forty baths, and each laver was four cubits. On each of the ten carts was a laver.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:42

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:21 - And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:10 - And he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother’s name was Maachah the granddaughter of Abishalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:8 - So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:24 - So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the LORD. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9 - So Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him, of every good thing of Damascus, forty camel-loads; and he came and stood before him, and said, “Your son Ben-Hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this disease?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:14 - And he said, “Take them alive!” So they took them alive, and killed them at the well of Beth Eked, forty-two men; and he left none of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:1

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:23

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, became king in Samaria, and reigned forty-one years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:18 - The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh had forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty valiant men, men able to bear shield and sword, to shoot with the bow, and skillful in war, who went to war.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:36 - of Asher, those who could go out to war, able to keep battle formation, forty thousand;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:18 - Then the Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven thousand[fn] charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers[fn] of the Syrians, and killed Shophach the commander of the army.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31 - Among the Hebronites, Jerijah was head of the Hebronites according to his genealogy of the fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought, and there were found among them capable men at Jazer of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:27 - And the period that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years he reigned in Hebron, and thirty-three years he reigned in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:30

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:13 - Thus King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:13 - So Asa rested with his fathers; he died in the forty-first year of his reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:2 - Ahaziah was forty-two[fn] years old when he became king, 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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:1 - Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:8 - the people of Zattu, nine hundred and forty-five;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:10 - the people of Bani,[fn] six hundred and forty-two;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:24 - the people of Azmaveth,[fn] forty-two;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:25 - the people of Kirjath Arim,[fn] Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:34 - the people of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:38

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:38 - the sons of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:66

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:66 - Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:15 - But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people, but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

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