עֶשְׂרִים esrim

Hebrew word for “twenty” · Strong’s H6242 · used 315 times in 281 verses

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Meaning

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

How it is translated

Glosses given for esrim in context, with how often each is used:

• twenty 301
• day twenty 8
• about twenty 2
• will be twenty 2
• twenty cubits 1
• twenty measures 1

Where it is used

Also in 9 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 1 (15), 1 Chronicles 27 (14), Ezra 2 (13), Nehemiah 7 (11), Ezekiel 40 (9), Ezekiel 48 (7), Exodus 38 (5), 1 Chronicles 25 (5), 2 Chronicles 3 (5), Ezekiel 45 (5)

Forms

• עשׂרים 204
• ועשׂרים 94
• בעשׂרים 11
• העשׂרים 3
• כעשׂרים 2
• לעשׂרים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with esrim more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 97
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 71
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 66
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 54
• חֹדֶשׁ chodesh “month” 40
• אַרְבַּע arba “four” 41
• רֹחַב rochav “width” 31
• שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 47
• אֹרֶךְ orekh “length” 30
• מַעַל maal “above” 31
• מָלַךְ malakh “to reign” 35
• עָשָׂר asar “ten” 35

Key verses

The verses using esrim that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 37:28 — Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver:…
• Judges 4:3 — And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
• 2 Samuel 10:6 — And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba,…
• 1 Kings 20:30 — But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into…
• 2 Kings 4:42 — And there came a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk…
• 2 Chronicles 5:12 — Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having…
• 2 Chronicles 28:6 — For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of…
• Nehemiah 9:1 — Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
• Jeremiah 25:3 — From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto…
• Ezekiel 8:16 — And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about…
• Ezekiel 11:1 — Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD’s house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and…
• Ezekiel 40:1 — In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.