Twenty
עֶשְׂרִיןStrong’s H6243esrin (es-rin)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Esrin is the Aramaic word usually translated “twenty”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;”
Meaning
- Twenty
How it's translated
- and twenty 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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עֶשְׂרִין esrin · twenty
twenty Aramaic of es.rim (עֶשְׂרִים "twenty" H6242)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.