Forty

Usually translated “forty”, “than forty” and “forty -”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• forty 17
• than forty 2
• for forty 1
• forty - 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Acts 8
• Revelation 6
• Matthew 1
• Mark 1
• Luke 1
• John 1

8 books in all.

• Forty (arbaim)
• Forty years (tessarakontaetēs)

• Mark 1:13And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
• Luke 4:2Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
• John 2:20Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
• Acts 1:3To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
• Acts 4:22For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
• Acts 7:30And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “forty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.