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Twenty

עֶשְׂרִיםStrong’s H6242

esrim (es-rim)

Appears in 281 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Esrim is the Hebrew word usually translated “twenty”, “on twenty” and “about twenty”. It appears in 281 verses of the Old Testament.

“And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;”
Daniel 10:4 KJV
Meaning
  1. Twenty, twentieth
How it's translated
  • twenty 204
  • and twenty 94
  • on twenty 8
  • the twenty 3
  • for twenty 2
  • about twenty 2
  • in twenty 2

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

Where it's used most
  • 1 Chronicles 39
  • Numbers 32
  • Ezekiel 29
  • 2 Chronicles 27
  • 1 Kings 21
  • Ezra 20

21 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 281 verses, by book
Leviticus 3
27:327:527:25
Deuteronomy 2
31:234:7
Joshua 2
15:3219:30
1 Samuel 2
7:214:14
Esther 3
1:18:99:30
Daniel 2
10:410:13
Zechariah 2
1:75:2
Hebrew dictionary

עֶשְׂרִים esrim · twenty

twenty, twentieth Aramaic equivalent: es.rin (עֶשְׂרִין "twenty" H6243)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

TWEN'TY, adjective

[Latin decem.]

  1. Twice ten; as twenty men; twenty years.
  2. Proverbially, an indefinite number.

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.