Twenty
עֶשְׂרִיםStrong’s H6242esrim (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;”
Meaning
- 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.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 10:13In contextBut the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
- Zechariah 1:7In contextUpon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
- Zechariah 5:2In contextAnd he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
- Genesis 6:3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
- Genesis 8:14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
- Genesis 11:24And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
All 281 verses, by book
- Exodus 19
- 12:1826:226:1826:1926:2027:1027:1127:1630:1330:1436:936:2336:2436:2538:1038:1138:1838:2438:26
- Numbers 32
- 1:31:181:201:221:241:261:281:301:321:341:361:381:401:421:453:393:433:477:867:888:2410:1111:1914:2918:1625:926:226:426:1426:6232:1133:39
- 1 Kings 21
- 4:235:116:26:36:166:208:639:109:119:149:2810:1014:2015:915:3316:816:1016:1516:2920:3022:42
- 1 Chronicles 39
- 2:227:27:77:97:4012:2812:3012:3512:3715:515:618:418:520:623:423:2423:2724:1624:1724:1825:2725:2825:2925:3025:3127:127:227:427:527:727:827:927:1027:1127:1227:1327:1427:1527:23
- 2 Chronicles 27
- 2:103:33:43:83:113:134:15:127:57:108:19:911:2113:2120:3125:125:527:127:828:128:629:131:1733:2136:236:536:11
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.]
- Twice ten; as twenty men; twenty years.
- 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.