Eighty
שְׁמֹנִיםStrong’s H8084shemonim (she-mo-nim)
Appears in 37 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shemonim is the Hebrew word usually translated “eighty”. It appears in 37 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:”
Meaning
- Eighty, fourscoreeighty (as cardinal number) · eightieth (as ordinal number) · in combination with other numbers
How it's translated
- and eighty 18
- eighty 18
- in eighty 1
- for eighty 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 7
- Genesis 5
- 1 Kings 3
- 2 Kings 3
- 1 Chronicles 3
- Numbers 2
18 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 5:26And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:28And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
- Genesis 16:16And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
- Genesis 35:28And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
- Exodus 7:7And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
- Numbers 2:9All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
All 37 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁמֹנִים shemonim · eighty
1) eighty, fourscore 1a) eighty (as cardinal number) 1b) eightieth (as ordinal number) 1c) in combination with other numbers
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “eighty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EIGHTY, adjective
'aty. Eight times ten; four score.
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.