שְׁמֹנִים shemonim

Hebrew word for “eighty” · Strong’s H8084 · used 38 times in 37 verses

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Meaning

1) eighty, fourscore; 1a) eighty (as cardinal number); 1b) eightieth (as ordinal number); 1c) in combination with other numbers

How it is translated

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

• eighty 38

Where it is used

Also in 6 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 5 (3), 2 Samuel 19 (2), 2 Chronicles 2 (2), 2 Chronicles 17 (2), Genesis 16 (1), Genesis 35 (1), Exodus 7 (1), Numbers 2 (1), Numbers 4 (1), Joshua 14 (1)

Forms

• ושׁמנים 11
• שׁמנים 10
• שׁמונים 8
• ושׁמונים 7
• בשׁמונים 1
• בשׁמנים 1

Words used with it

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

• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 20
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 13
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 12
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 6
• סַבָּל sabbal “burden” 3
• לֶמֶךְ lemekh “Lamech” 3
• עִם im “with” 7
• שִׁבְעִים shivim “seventy” 4
• חָצַב chatsav “to hew” 3
• שֵׁשׁ shesh “six” 4
• חָיָה chayah “to live” 4
• שְׁלֹמֹה shelomoh “Solomon” 4

Key verses

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

• 1 Samuel 22:18 — And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and…
• 2 Samuel 19:32 — Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
• 2 Samuel 19:35 — I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of…
• 1 Kings 6:1 — And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s…
• 2 Kings 6:25 — And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a…
• 2 Kings 19:35 — And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when…
• 2 Chronicles 11:1 — And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to…
• Esther 1:4 — When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.
• Psalms 90:10 — The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is…
• Song of Solomon 6:8 — There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
• Isaiah 37:36 — Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the…
• Jeremiah 41:5 — That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut…

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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.