אַרְבָּעִים
ʼarbâʻîym · H705 · Hebrew · 135 occurrences
Meanings
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forty
State in which a countable entity is forty in number
ExamplesGenesis 7:4 “For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will wipe out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.”
Genesis 7:12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:17 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַמּוּדpillar 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מָצָאto find 1
- נָפַלto fall 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- מָצָאto find 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- בֵּןson 1
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
- אֹרֶךְlength 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָבוּרfor the sake of, so that 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Quantity002001001046
- אַרְבָּעִים is the number forty, used repeatedly for spans of years, days, or other counted totals, as the forty days and nights of rain in the flood narrative (Genesis 7:4, 12).
- Frequency002001003009
- The same numeral also covers recurring spans of forty, as Isaac being forty years old when he took Rebekah as his wife (Genesis 25:20) and Esau likewise at forty (Genesis 26:34).
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H705. arbaim אַרְבָּעִים136 plural noun indeclinable a forty; — 1 sine num. al.: a.…
אַרְבָּעִים136 plural noun indeclinable a forty; —
1 sine num. al.:
a. usually apposition before noun, especially יוֺם שָׁנָה, (singular): שָׁנָה אַרְבָּעִים Jdg 3:11; 1Sa 4:18; Amo 2:10; Amo 5:25 29t.;׳א יוֺם Gen 7:17; 1Ki 19:8; Jon 3:4 Jon 3:6t.,׳וְא לַיְלָה ׳א יוֺם Gen 7:4, Gen 7:12; Exo 24:18 Exo 24:7t.; also ׳א בַּת 1Ki 7:38, ׳א גָּמָל 2Ki 8:9, ׳א אַמָּה Eze 41:2 and (אַמָּה omitted) Eze 46:22, but ׳א בָּאַמָּה 1Ki 6:17 (v: אַמָּה); ׳א אֶלֶף Num 1:33; Num 2:19; Num 26:18; Jos 4:13; Jdg 5:8; 2Sa 10:18; 1Ki 5:6; 1Ch 12:37 (van d. H. v.1Ch 12:36), 1Ch 19:18 (see also below); rarely followed by plural noun, ׳א בָּנִים Jdg 12:14, ׳א אֲדָנִים Exo 26:19, Exo 26:21; Exo 36:24, Exo 36:26 (P). — (As round number Gen 7:17; Jdg 3:11; Jdg 5:31; Jdg 8:28; 1Sa 4:18 +).
b. after plural noun, א ׳מָּרוֺת Gen 32:16 (E), א ׳שְׁקָלִים Neh 5:15.
c. noun omitted Gen 18:29, ׳הָא Gen 18:29; ׳א יַכֶּנּוּ Deu 25:3 forty (blows) may he smite him.
2 with other numbers:
a. before unit, + singular noun:, 40 1שָׁנָה 1Ki 14:21; 1Ki 15:10; 2Ki 14:23; 402שָׁנָה2Chron 22:20, אִישׁ 2Ki 10:14, עִיר Num 35:6, + אֶלֶף Jdg 12:6; 405שָׁנָה Jos 14:10 (JE), etc. (12 t.); + plural noun יְלָדִים 2Ki 2:24; after plural noun הָעַמּוּדִים405 1Ki 7:3; noun omitted 40 5 Gen 18:28, compare Ezr 2:24 = Neh 7:28.
b. after unit, 9 40שָׁנָה Lev 25:8 (H); 1 40אֶלֶף Num 1:41; Num 2:28, etc. (9 t. Numbers, P).
c. with hundreds, 40 שָׁנָה800שָׁנָה Gen 5:18 (P); 100 40שָׁנָה Job 42:16; + units, 7 שָׁנִים40100שָׁנָה Gen 47:28 (P); but (Ezra Nehemiah, mostly predicate, without noun), 900 405 Ezr 2:8, compare Ezr 2:25; Neh 7:62, and (׳א without וְ) 600, 40 2 Ezr 2:10, see also || Neh 7:15; Ezr 2:34 = Neh 7:36; Ezr 2:66 = Neh 7:68 (ver. omitted Baer Gi), Neh 7:13, Neh 7:29, Neh 7:44; Nehemiah 1000, 200, 40 7 Ezr 2:38 = Neh 7:41; plural noun 200 405 Neh 7:67, plural noun 200, 40 + 2; Neh 11:13; also singular noun נֶפֶשׁ 700, 40 5 Jer 52:30.
3 as ordinal, ׳בְּא שָׁנָה Deu 1:3 in the fortieth year; also הָא ׳בִּשְׁנַת Num 33:38; 1Ch 26:31; א ׳בִּשְׁנַת וְאַחַת2Ch 16:13 in the forty-first year
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
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