Forty
אַרְבָּעִיםStrong’s H0705arbaim (ar-ba-im)
Appears in 124 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Arbaim is the Hebrew word usually translated “forty”, “about forty” and “among forty”. It appears in 124 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:”
Meaning
- Forty
How it's translated
- forty 94
- and forty 37
- the forty 2
- in forty 1
- about forty 1
- among forty 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 19
- Genesis 12
- Nehemiah 12
- Deuteronomy 11
- 1 Kings 9
- Exodus 7
21 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 7:4For 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.
- Genesis 7:12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
- Genesis 7:17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
- Genesis 8:6And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
- Genesis 18:28Peradventure 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.
- Genesis 18:29And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake.
All 124 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אַרְבָּעִים arbaim · forty
forty
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “forty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOR'TY, adjective
[See Four.]
- Four times ten.
- An indefinite number; a colloquial use.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.