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Hebrew noun · H705

אַרְבָּעִים

arbaimar-baw-eem'

forty

136 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʼarbâʻîym

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H705is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 21 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 21
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H705

forty

The King James renders it: forty.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

arbaim is rendered "forty". It stands 136 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-one books.

  • Twenty of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 5:13And after he had become the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-one different ways.

The first use

And after he had become the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:13אַרְבָּעִ֣ים

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • forty93
  • and forty37
  • the forty3
  • about forty1
  • among forty1
  • in forty1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

אַרְבַּעarbafourUses318
אַרְגָּמָןargamanpurpleUses38
אַרְמוֹןarmoncitadel: palaceUses32
אַרְבֶּהarbehlocustUses24
אַרְיֵהaryehlionUses10
אַרְבַּעarbafourUses8
אַרְכִּיArkiArchiteUses6
אַרְגָּזargazboxUses3
אַרְגְּוָןargevanpurpleUses3
אַרְכָּאarkalengtheningUses2
אַרְוָדִיArvadiArvaditeUses2
אַרְזָהarzahcedarUses1

and 6 more on the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 136, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

21 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • אַרְבָּעִ֥ים45
  • אַרְבָּעִ֣ים28
  • וְאַרְבָּעִ֥ים11
  • אַרְבָּעִ֖ים8
  • וְאַרְבָּעִ֖ים7
  • וְאַרְבָּעִ֣ים7
  • אַרְבָּעִ֨ים6
  • וְאַרְבָּעִ֛ים6
  • וְאַרְבָּעִים֙5
  • אַרְבָּעִ֤ים2
  • אַרְבָּעִ֑ים1
  • אַרְבָּ֘עִ֤ים1

and 9 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • number (cardinal) · masculine plural49HAcmpa
  • noun · masculine plural44HNcmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine plural25HC/Acmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural12HC/Ncmpa
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural2HR/Ncmpa
  • the definite article (“the”) + number (cardinal) · masculine plural2HTd/Acmpa
  • preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine plural1HR/Acmpa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa

Genesis

fifteen uses
  • And after he had become the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.

    Genesis 5:13

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

    Genesis 7:4

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֖יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

    Genesis 7:12

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֖יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

    Genesis 7:17

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

    Genesis 8:6

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”

    Genesis 18:28

    • אַרְבָּעִ֖יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, “Suppose forty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the forty, I will not do it.”

    Genesis 18:29

    • אַרְבָּעִ֑יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
    • הָאַרְבָּעִֽים׃haarbaimthe definite article (“the”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: the forty
  • and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

    Genesis 25:20

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

    Genesis 26:34

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • 30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.

    Genesis 32:15

    • אַרְבָּעִים֙ʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.

    Genesis 47:28

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֥יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

    Genesis 50:3

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty

Exodus

nine uses
  • The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

    Exodus 16:35

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

    Exodus 24:18

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֖יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.

    Exodus 26:19

    • וְאַרְבָּעִים֙vearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • and forty silver bases—two bases under each frame.

    Exodus 26:21

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֥יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

    Exodus 34:28

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֣יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • with forty silver bases to put under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.

    Exodus 36:24

    • וְאַרְבָּעִים֙vearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • and forty silver bases—two bases under each frame.

    Exodus 36:26

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֥יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty

Leviticus

one use
  • And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.

    Leviticus 25:8

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֖יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty

Numbers

twenty uses
  • those registered to the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

    Numbers 1:21

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֛יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • those registered to the tribe of Gad numbered 45,650.

    Numbers 1:25

    • וְאַרְבָּעִים֙vearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • From the sons of Ephraim, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army, those registered to the tribe of Ephraim numbered 40,500.

    Numbers 1:33

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • those registered to the tribe of Asher numbered 41,500.

    Numbers 1:41

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֛יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • The leader of the Reubenites is Elizur son of Shedeur, and his division numbers 46,500.

    Numbers 2:11

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֛יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • and his division numbers 45,650.

    Numbers 2:15

    • וְאַרְבָּעִים֙vearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • The leader of the Ephraimites is Elishama son of Ammihud, and his division numbers 40,500.

    Numbers 2:19

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • and his division numbers 41,500.

    Numbers 2:28

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֛יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,

    Numbers 13:25

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

    Numbers 14:33

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.

    Numbers 14:34

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
    • אַרְבָּעִ֖יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • These were the clans of Reuben, and their registration numbered 43,730.

    Numbers 26:7

    • וְאַרְבָּעִים֙vearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • These were the clans of Gad, and their registration numbered 40,500.

    Numbers 26:18

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • These were the clans of Benjamin, and their registration numbered 45,600.

    Numbers 26:41

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֛יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • These were the clans of Naphtali, and their registration numbered 45,400.

    Numbers 26:50

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֛יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.

    Numbers 32:13

    • אַרְבָּעִ֖יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • At the LORD’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt.

    Numbers 33:38

    • הָֽאַרְבָּעִ֗יםhaarbaimthe definite article (“the”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: the forty
  • Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.

    Numbers 35:6

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.

    Numbers 35:7

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty

Deuteronomy

sixteen uses
  • In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.

    Deuteronomy 1:3

    • בְּאַרְבָּעִ֣יםbearbaimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: in forty
  • Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.

    Deuteronomy 2:7

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.

    Deuteronomy 8:2

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.

    Deuteronomy 8:4

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

    Deuteronomy 9:9

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֣יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

    Deuteronomy 9:11

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֖יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

    Deuteronomy 9:18

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֣יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

    Deuteronomy 9:25

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.

    Deuteronomy 10:10

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֖יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

    Deuteronomy 25:3

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

    Deuteronomy 29:5

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty

Joshua

five uses
  • About 40,000 troops armed for battle crossed over before the LORD into the plains of Jericho.

    Joshua 4:13

    • כְּאַרְבָּעִ֥יםkearbaimpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: about forty
  • For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

    Joshua 5:6

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • 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 to him an honest report.

    Joshua 14:7

    • אַרְבָּעִ֨יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • Now behold, as the LORD promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old,

    Joshua 14:10

    • אַרְבָּעִ֨יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites.

    Joshua 21:41

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty

Judges

seven uses
  • So the land had rest for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.

    Judges 3:11

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.

    Judges 5:8

    • בְּאַרְבָּעִ֥יםbearbaimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: among forty
  • So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.

    Judges 5:31

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • In this way Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. So the land had rest for forty years in the days of Gideon,

    Judges 8:28

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42,000 Ephraimites were killed.

    Judges 12:6

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.

    Judges 12:14

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

    Judges 13:1

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty

1 Samuel

three uses
  • As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.

    1 Samuel 4:18

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.

    1 Samuel 13:1

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֣יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening to take his stand.

    1 Samuel 17:16

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty

2 Samuel

four uses
  • Saul’s son Ish-bosheth was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for two years. The house of Judah, however, followed David.

    2 Samuel 2:10

    • אַרְבָּעִ֨יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years.

    2 Samuel 5:4

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also struck down Shobach the commander of their army, who died there.

    2 Samuel 10:18

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֥יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the LORD.

    2 Samuel 15:7

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty

1 Kings

ten uses
  • The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

    1 Kings 2:11

    • אַרְבָּעִ֖יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.

    1 Kings 4:26

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

    1 Kings 6:17

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֥יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

    1 Kings 7:3

    • אַרְבָּעִ֖יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.

    1 Kings 7:38

    • אַרְבָּעִ֨יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

    1 Kings 11:42

    • אַרְבָּעִ֖יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

    1 Kings 14:21

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • and he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

    1 Kings 15:10

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֤יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

    1 Kings 19:8

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֣יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and forty

2 Kings

five uses
  • Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

    2 Kings 2:24

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • So Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift of forty camel loads of every good thing from Damascus. And he went in and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”

    2 Kings 8:9

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • Then Jehu ordered, “Take them alive.” So his men took them alive, then slaughtered them at the well of Beth-eked—forty-two men. He spared none of them.

    2 Kings 10:14

    • אַרְבָּעִ֤יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

    2 Kings 12:1

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֣יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • In the fifteenth year of the reign of Amaziah son of Joash over Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria forty-one years.

    2 Kings 14:23

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty

1 Chronicles

five uses
  • The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 warriors—valiant men who carried the shield and sword, drew the bow, and were trained for battle.

    1 Chronicles 5:18

    • אַרְבָּעִ֨יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • From Asher: 40,000 fit for service, prepared for battle.

    1 Chronicles 12:36

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven thousand of their charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also killed Shophach the commander of their army.

    1 Chronicles 19:18

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֥יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • As for the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief of the Hebronites, according to the genealogies of his ancestors. In the fortieth year of David’s reign the records were searched, and strong, capable men were found among the Hebronites at Jazer in Gilead.

    1 Chronicles 26:31

    • הָֽאַרְבָּעִ֜יםhaarbaimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the forty
  • The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

    1 Chronicles 29:27

    • אַרְבָּעִ֖יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty

2 Chronicles

five uses
  • Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

    2 Chronicles 9:30

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

    2 Chronicles 12:13

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • So in the forty-first year of his reign, Asa died and rested with his fathers.

    2 Chronicles 16:13

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

    2 Chronicles 22:2

    • אַרְבָּעִ֨יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

    2 Chronicles 24:1

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֣יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and forty

Ezra

seven uses
  • the descendants of Zattu, 945;

    Ezra 2:8

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֥יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • the descendants of Bani, 642;

    Ezra 2:10

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • the descendants of Azmaveth, 42;

    Ezra 2:24

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • the men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743;

    Ezra 2:25

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֥יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • the men of Jericho, 345;

    Ezra 2:34

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • the descendants of Pashhur, 1,247;

    Ezra 2:38

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • They had 736 horses, 245 mules,

    Ezra 2:66

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty

Nehemiah

twelve uses
  • The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.

    Nehemiah 5:15

    • אַרְבָּעִ֔יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • the descendants of Zattu, 845;

    Nehemiah 7:13

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • the descendants of Binnui, 648;

    Nehemiah 7:15

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • the men of Beth-azmaveth, 42;

    Nehemiah 7:28

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • the men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743;

    Nehemiah 7:29

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • the men of Jericho, 345;

    Nehemiah 7:36

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • the descendants of Pashhur, 1,247;

    Nehemiah 7:41

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 148.

    Nehemiah 7:44

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, and the descendants of Nekoda, 642 in all.

    Nehemiah 7:62

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֥יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • They had 736 horses, 245 mules,

    Nehemiah 7:68

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֥יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

    Nehemiah 9:21

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֥יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty
  • Adaiah son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah; and his associates, the leaders of families—242 men;

    Nehemiah 11:13

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty

Job

one use
  • After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

    Job 42:16

    • וְאַרְבָּעִ֖יםvearbaimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and forty

Psalms

one use
  • For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

    Psalms 95:10

    • אַרְבָּ֘עִ֤יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty

Jeremiah

one use
  • in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews. So in all, 4,600 people were taken away.

    Jeremiah 52:30

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty

Ezekiel

six uses
  • When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.

    Ezekiel 4:6

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.

    Ezekiel 29:11

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.

    Ezekiel 29:12

    • אַרְבָּעִ֖יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • For this is what the Lord GOD says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations to which they were scattered.

    Ezekiel 29:13

    • אַרְבָּעִ֤יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits.

    Ezekiel 41:2

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • In the four corners of the outer court there were enclosed courts, each forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. Each of the four corner areas had the same dimensions.

    Ezekiel 46:22

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: forty

Amos

two uses
  • And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.

    Amos 2:10

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty
  • Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

    Amos 5:25

    • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty

Jonah

one use
  • On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”

    Jonah 3:4

    • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםʾarbaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: forty

The letters

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How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in the first 120 verses where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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