Fourfold
אַרְבַּעְתַּיִםStrong’s H0706arbatayim (ar-ba-ta-yim)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Arbatayim is the Hebrew word usually translated “fourfold”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.”
Meaning
- Fourfold
How it's translated
- fourfold 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
אַרְבַּעְתַּיִם arbatayim · fourfold
fourfold A grammatical form of ar.ba (אַרְבַּע "four" H0702)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fourfold” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOURFOLD, adjective
Four double; quadruple; four times told; as a fourfold division.
- “He shall restore the lamb fourfold” 2 Samuel 12:6
All definitions and other forms of “fourfold”
FOURFOLD, noun
Four times as much.
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.