אַרְבָּעִים arbaim

Hebrew word for “forty” · Strong’s H705 · used 135 times in 123 verses

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Meaning

forty

How it is translated

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

• forty 130
• will be forty 1
• forty times 1
• about forty 1
• among forty 1
• forty cubits 1

Where it is used

Also in 9 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Nehemiah 7 (9), Ezra 2 (7), Numbers 1 (4), Numbers 2 (4), Numbers 26 (4), Deuteronomy 9 (4), Genesis 7 (3), Ezekiel 29 (3), Genesis 18 (2), Exodus 26 (2)

Forms

• ארבעים 93
• וארבעים 36
• הארבעים 3
• בארבעים 2
• כארבעים 1

Words used with it

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

• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 50
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 33
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 23
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 23
• שֶׁבַע sheva “seven” 20
• מָלַךְ malakh “to reign” 14
• שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 17
• אֶחָד echad “one” 17
• שֵׁשׁ shesh “six” 12
• פָּקַד paqad “to reckon” 12
• לַיְלָה laylah “night” 10
• מִדְבָּר midbar “wilderness” 10

Key verses

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

• Genesis 7:4 — For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off…
• Exodus 24:18 — And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
• Exodus 34:28 — And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant,…
• Numbers 14:34 — After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall…
• Deuteronomy 8:2 — And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in…
• Deuteronomy 9:9 — When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty…
• Deuteronomy 9:18 — And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye…
• Judges 5:31 — So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
• 2 Kings 2:24 — And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two…
• Nehemiah 5:15 — But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea,…
• Psalms 95:10 — Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
• Amos 2:10 — Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

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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.