Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NLT

NLT

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H705 - 'arbāʿîm

Choose a new font size and typeface
אַרְבָּעִים
Transliteration
'arbāʿîm
Pronunciation
ar-baw-eem'
Listen
Part of Speech
plural adjective, noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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

Read the Full Entry

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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)

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:13 - After the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan lived another 840 years, and he had other sons and daughters.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4 - Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:12 - The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17 - For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:6 - After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - Suppose there are only forty-five righteous people rather than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?”
And the LORD said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five righteous people there.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29 - Then Abraham pressed his request further. “Suppose there are only forty?”
And the LORD replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the forty.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:34 - At the age of forty, Esau married two Hittite wives: Judith, the daughter of Beeri, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:15 - 30 female camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:28 - Jacob lived for seventeen years after his arrival in Egypt, so he lived 147 years in all.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:3 - The embalming process took the usual forty days. And the Egyptians mourned his death for seventy days.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:35 - So the people of Israel ate manna for forty years until they arrived at the land where they would settle. They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:18 - Then Moses disappeared into the cloud as he climbed higher up the mountain. He remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:19 - Also make forty silver bases—two bases under each frame, with the pegs fitting securely into the bases.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:21 - with their forty silver bases, two bases under each frame.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - Moses remained there on the mountain with the LORD forty days and forty nights. In all that time he ate no bread and drank no water. And the LORD[fn] wrote the terms of the covenant—the Ten Commandments[fn]—on the stone tablets.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:24 - He also made forty silver bases—two bases under each frame, with the pegs fitting securely into the bases.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:26 - with their forty silver bases, two bases under each frame.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:8 - “In addition, you must count off seven Sabbath years, seven sets of seven years, adding up to forty-nine years in all.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - This is the number of men twenty years old or older who were able to go to war, as their names were listed in the records of their clans and families[fn]:
TribeNumber
Reuben (Jacob’s[fn] oldest son)46,500

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25 -
Gad45,650

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33 -
Ephraim son of Joseph40,500

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:41 -
Asher41,500

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:11 - “The divisions of Reuben, Simeon, and Gad are to camp on the south side of the Tabernacle, beneath their family banners. These are the names of the tribes, their leaders, and the numbers of their registered troops:
TribeLeaderNumber
ReubenElizur son of Shedeur46,500

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:15 -
GadEliasaph son of Deuel[fn]45,650

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:19 - “The divisions of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin are to camp on the west side of the Tabernacle, beneath their family banners. These are the names of the tribes, their leaders, and the numbers of their registered troops:
TribeLeaderNumber
EphraimElishama son of Ammihud40,500

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:28 -
AsherPagiel son of Ocran41,500

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:25 - After exploring the land for forty days, the men returned

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - And your children will be like shepherds, wandering in the wilderness for forty years. In this way, they will pay for your faithlessness, until the last of you lies dead in the wilderness.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:34 - “‘Because your men explored the land for forty days, you must wander in the wilderness for forty years—a year for each day, suffering the consequences of your sins. Then you will discover what it is like to have me for an enemy.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:7 - These were the clans of Reuben. Their registered troops numbered 43,730.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:18 - These were the clans of Gad. Their registered troops numbered 40,500.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:41 - These were the clans of Benjamin. Their registered troops numbered 45,600.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:50 - These were the clans of Naphtali. Their registered troops numbered 45,400.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - “The LORD was angry with Israel and made them wander in the wilderness for forty years until the entire generation that sinned in the LORD’s sight had died.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:38 - While they were at the foot of Mount Hor, Aaron the priest was directed by the LORD to go up the mountain, and there he died. This happened in midsummer, on the first day of the fifth month[fn] of the fortieth year after Israel’s departure from Egypt.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - “Six of the towns you give the Levites will be cities of refuge, where a person who has accidentally killed someone can flee for safety. In addition, give them forty-two other towns.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - In all, forty-eight towns with the surrounding pastureland will be given to the Levites.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:3 - But forty years after the Israelites left Egypt, on the first day of the eleventh month,[fn] Moses addressed the people of Israel, telling them everything the LORD had commanded him to say.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:7 - For the LORD your God has blessed you in everything you have done. He has watched your every step through this great wilderness. During these forty years, the LORD your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.”’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - Remember how the LORD your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:4 - For all these forty years your clothes didn’t wear out, and your feet didn’t blister or swell.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:9 - This happened when I was on the mountain receiving the tablets of stone inscribed with the words of the covenant that the LORD had made with you. I was there for forty days and forty nights, and all that time I ate no food and drank no water.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:11 - “At the end of the forty days and nights, the LORD handed me the two stone tablets inscribed with the words of the covenant.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18 - “Then, as before, I threw myself down before the LORD for forty days and nights. I ate no bread and drank no water because of the great sin you had committed by doing what the LORD hated, provoking him to anger.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:25 - “That is why I threw myself down before the LORD for forty days and nights—for the LORD said he would destroy you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:10 - “As for me, I stayed on the mountain in the LORD’s presence for forty days and nights, as I had done the first time. And once again the LORD listened to my pleas and agreed not to destroy you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - But never give more than forty lashes; more than forty lashes would publicly humiliate your neighbor.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:5 - For forty years I led you through the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

Search Results Continued...

1. Currently on page 1/3 (Gen 5:13–Deu 29:5) Gen 5:13–Deu 29:5

2. LOAD PAGE 2 Jos 4:13–Neh 5:15

3. LOAD PAGE 3 Neh 7:13–Jon 3:4

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NLT
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NLT
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.