Strong's Lexicon

H705

H705 — אַרבָּעִים

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewarba`iymadjectiveOccurrences: 135TWOT: 2106b

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H705
Word:אַרבָּעִים
Part of Speech:adjective
Etymology:multiple of H702
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:135
Transliteration:arba`iym
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:ar-baw-eem'
Meaning:1. forty
KJV Renderings:forty.

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אַרְבָּעִים136 plural noun indeclinable a forty; —

1. without other number:
a. usually apposition before noun, especially שָׁנָה , יוֺם (singular): אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה Judg 3:11; 1Sam 4:18; Amos 2:10; Amos 5:25 + 29 t.; יוֺם ׳ א Gen 7:17; 1Kgs 19:8; Jonah 3:4 + 6 t., יוֺם ׳ א לַיְלָה ׳ וְא Gen 7:4; Gen 7:12; Exod 24:18 + 7 t.; also בַּת ׳ א 1Kgs 7:38, גָּמָל ׳ א 2Kgs 8:9, אַמָּה ׳ א Ezek 41:2 and ( אַמָּה omitted) Ezek 46:22, but בָּאַמָּה ׳ א 1Kgs 6:17 (v: אַמָּה); אֶלֶף ׳ א Num 1:33; Num 2:19; Num 26:18; Josh 4:13; Judg 5:8; 2Sam 10:18 ; 1Kgs 5:6; 1Chr 12:37 ( van d. H. v.1Chr 12:36), 1Chr 19:18 (see also below); rarely followed by plural noun, בָּנִים ׳ א Judg 12:14, אֲדָנִים ׳ א Exod 26:19; Exod 26:21; Exod 36:24; Exod 36:26 ( P ). — (As round number Gen 7:17; Judg 3:11; Judg 5:31; Judg 8:28; 1Sam 4:18 +).
b. after plural noun, ׳ פָּרוֺת א Gen 32:16 ( E ), ׳ שְׁקָלִים א Neh 5:15.
c. noun omitted Gen 18:29, ׳ הָא Gen 18:29 יַכֶּנּוּ ׳ א Deut 25:3 forty (blows) may he smite him.
2. with other numbers:
a. before unit, + singular noun:, 40 + 1שָׁנָה 1Kgs 14:21 ; 1Kgs 15:10 ; 2Kgs 14:23 40 + 2 שָׁנָה 2Chr 22:20 , אִישׁ 2Kgs 10:14 , עִיר Num 35:6, + אֶלֶף Judg 12:6 40 + 5 שָׁנָה Josh 14:10 ( J E ), etc. (12 t.); + plural noun יְלָדִים 2Kgs 2:24 after plural noun הָעַמּוּדִים + 40 + 5 1Kgs 7:3 noun omitted 40 + 5 Gen 18:28, compare Ezra 2:24 = Neh 7:28.
b. after unit, 9 + 40 שָׁנָה Lev 25:8 ( H ); 1 + 40 אֶלֶף Num 1:41; Num 2:28, etc. (9 t. Numbers, P ).
c. with hundreds, 40 שָׁנָה + 800 שָׁנָה Gen 5:18 ( P ); 100 + 40 שָׁנָה Job 42:16 + units, 7 שָׁנִים + 40 + 100 שָׁנָה Gen 47:28 ( P ); but (Ezra Nehemiah, mostly predicate, without noun), 900 + 40 + 5 Ezra 2:8, compare Ezra 2:25; Neh 7:62, and (׳ א without וְ) 600, 40 + 2 Ezra 2:10, see also || Neh 7:15; Ezra 2:34 = Neh 7:36; Ezra 2:66 = Neh 7:68 (ver. omitted Baer Gi), Neh 7:13; Neh 7:29; Neh 7:44 1000, 200, 40 + 7 Ezra 2:38 = Neh 7:41 plural noun 200 + 40 + 5 Neh 7:67, plural noun 200, 40 + 2; Neh 11:13 also singular noun נֶפֶשׁ 700, 40 + 5 Jer 52:30.
3. as ordinal, שָׁנָה ׳ בְּא Deut 1:3 in the fortieth year; also ׳ בִּשְׁנַת הָא Num 33:38; 1Chr 26:31 וְאַחַת ׳ בִּשְׁנַת א 2Chr 16:13 in the forty-first year


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

אַרְבָּעִים (ar-bah-geem')

Genesis 5:13

KJV: And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
EHCC: Cainan lived...eight hundred and forty

Genesis 7:4

KJV: For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.destroy: Heb. blot out
EHCC: 12. forty days and forty nights ;

Genesis 8:6

KJV: And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
EHCC: at the end of forty days,

Genesis 18:28

KJV: Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
EHCC: If I find there forty and five,

Genesis 25:20

KJV: And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan–aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
EHCC: Isaac was forty years old

Genesis 26:34

KJV: And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
EHCC: Esau was ey years old

Genesis 32:15

KJV: Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
EHCC: ( 16). forty kine, and ten bulls,

Genesis 47:28

KJV: And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.the whole…: Heb. the days of the years of his life
EHCC: of J. was an hundred forty aad seven

Genesis 50:3

KJV: And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.mourned: Heb. wept
EHCC: forty days were fulfilled

Genesis 26:19

KJV: And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.springing: Heb. living
EHCC: thou abalt mal c forty sockets -

Genesis 34:28

KJV: They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
EHCC: there with the L. forty days and forty

Genesis 36:24

KJV: And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.
EHCC: And forty sockets of silver

Leviticus 25:8

KJV: And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
EHCC: be unto poet Boe and nine years.

Numbers 1:21

KJV: Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
EHCC: forty and six thousand and five hundred.

Numbers 2:11

KJV: And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
EHCC: (were) forty and six thousand and 500.

Numbers 13:25

KJV: And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
EHCC: searching of the land after forty days.

Numbers 14:33

KJV: And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.wander: or, feed
EHCC: wander in the wilderness forty years,

Numbers 26:7

KJV: These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
EHCC: numbered of them were furty and three

Numbers 82:15

EHCC: wander in the wilderness forty years,

Numbers 33:38

KJV: And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the Lord, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
EHCC: and died there, in the fortieth year

Numbers 85:6

EHCC: ye shall add forty and two cities.

Deuteronomy 1:3

KJV: And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the Lord had given him in commandment unto them;
EHCC: tn the fortieth year,

Deuteronomy 2:7

KJV: For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
EHCC: these, forty Years the Lord thy God.

Deuteronomy 9:9

KJV: When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
EHCC: Il, 18. forty daynand forty nights,

Deuteronomy 10:10

KJV: And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy thee.first…: or, former days
EHCC: forty days and forty nights; and the Lord

Deuteronomy 25:3

KJV: Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
EHCC: Forty stripeshe may give him,

Deuteronomy 29:54

EHCC: have led you forty years

Joshua 4:18

KJV: And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.lifted…: Heb. plucked upflowed: Heb. went
EHCC: bon forty thousand prepared for war

Joshua 5:6

KJV: For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not shew them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
EHCC: walked forty years in the wilderness,

Joshua 14:7

KJV: Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh–barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
EHCC: Forty years old (was) 1

Joshua 21:41

KJV: All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
EHCC: (39). forty and eight cities

Judges 3:11

KJV: And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
EHCC: the land had rest forty years.

Judges 5:8

KJV: They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
EHCC: among forty thousand in Israel?

Judges 8:28

KJV: Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
EHCC: the country was in quietness forty years

Judges 12:6

KJV: Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
EHCC: of the Ephraimites, fortyand two thoussod.

Judges 17:16

EHCC: and presented himself forty days.

2 Samuel 2:10

KJV: Ish–bosheth Saul’s son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
EHCC: Ish-bosheth Saul’s son { wen) forty years

2 Samuel 5:4

KJV: David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
EHCC: he reigned forty years.

2 Samuel 10:18

KJV: And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.horsemen: also called, footmen
EHCC: and forty thousand horsemen,

2 Samuel 15:7

KJV: And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the Lord, in Hebron.
EHCC: it came ED pa after forty years,

1 Kings 2:11

KJV: And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
EHCC: that David reigned over Israel (were)

1 Kings 4:28

KJV: Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.dromedaries: or, mules, or, swift beasts
EHCC: (5°6). Solomon had forty thousand stalls

2 Kings 2:24

KJV: And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
EHCC: tare forty and two children

1 Chronicles 5:18

KJV: The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.valiant…: Heb. sons of valour
EHCC: four and forty thousand 760,

1 Chronicles 26:31

KJV: Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead.
EHCC: In se forticth year of the reign of David

2 Chronicles 9:30

KJV: And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
EHCC: in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

Ezra 2:8

KJV: The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.
EHCC: of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.

Ezra 38:0

EHCC: f Pashur, a thousand two hundred

Ezra 7:13

KJV: I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
EHCC: 0f. u, eight hundred forty and five.

Job 42:16

KJV: After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
EHCC: lived Job an hundred and years,

Psalms 95:10

KJV: Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
EHCC: Forty fo long was 1 grieved

Jeremiah 52:30

KJV: In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar–adan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
EHCC: seven hundred forty and five persons:

Amos 2:10

KJV: Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
EHCC: led you forty years

Jonah 3:4

KJV: And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
EHCC: Yet forty days, and Ninevel shail be

2 Samuel 12:6

KJV: And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
EHCC: he shall restore the lamb fourfold,
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