arbaim · forty

What it means

arbaim (אַרְבָּעִים) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “forty”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The quantity of four times ten.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Forty. It comes from אַרְבַּע, “four”.

• “Forty days and forty nights” Genesis 7:12Exodus 24:181 Kings 19:8
• Forty years in the wilderness Numbers 14:33Psalms 95:10
• Forty years of reign 2 Samuel 5:4
• “Forty more days, and Nineveh will be overturned” Jonah 3:4

Historical and cultural background

Numbers 14:33-34 explains the forty years of the wilderness: “According to the number of the days that you explored the land, forty days, a day for a year”.

How we translate it

“Forty” 133 times, “fortieth” 2.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• forty ×133
• fortieth ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×15
• Exodus×9
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×20
• Deuteronomy×16
• Joshua×5
• Judges×7
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×10
• 2 Kings×5
• 1 Chronicles×5
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Ezra×7
• Nehemiah×12
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×6
• Amos×2
• Jonah×1

• Genesis 5:13

  And Kenan lived after he fathered Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 7:4

  For in seven more days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out all that exists, which I have made, from the face of the ground.”

• Genesis 7:12

  And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

• Genesis 7:17

  And the flood was forty days on the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose above the earth.

• Genesis 8:6

  And it happened at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

• Genesis 18:28

  Perhaps the fifty righteous will lack five; will you destroy for the five the whole city?” He said, “I will not destroy it if I find there forty-five.”

• Genesis 18:29

  He spoke to him yet again and said, “Perhaps forty will be found there.” He said, “I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”

• Genesis 25:20

  Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, as his wife.

• Genesis 26:34

  When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

• Genesis 32:15

  thirty nursing camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

• Genesis 47:28

  Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty-seven years.

• Genesis 50:3

  Forty days were completed for him, for so are completed the days of embalming; and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

• Exodus 16:35

  The sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

• Exodus 24:18

  Moses entered the midst of the cloud and went up onto the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

• Exodus 26:19

  And forty bases of silver you shall make under the twenty boards, two bases under one board for its two tenons, and two bases under another board for its two tenons.

• Exodus 26:21

  and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one board and two bases under another board.

• Exodus 34:28

  And he was there with YHWH forty days and forty nights; bread he did not eat, and water he did not drink. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words.

• Exodus 36:24

  and forty bases of silver he made under the twenty boards, two bases under one board for its two tenons, and two bases under another board for its two tenons.

• Exodus 36:26

  and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one board and two bases under another board.

• Leviticus 25:8

  And you shall count for yourself seven Sabbaths of years, seven years seven times, and the days of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty- nine years.

• Numbers 1:21

  those of them counted from the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 1:25

  those of them counted from the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

• Numbers 1:33

  those of them counted from the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 1:41

  those of them counted from the tribe of Asher were forty-one thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 2:11

  and his army, those of them counted, are forty-six thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 2:15

  and his army, those of them counted, are forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

• Numbers 2:19

  and his army, those of them counted, are forty thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 2:28

  and his army, those of them counted, are forty-one thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 13:25

  At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.

• Numbers 14:33

  And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your acts of prostitution until the last of your corpses lies in the wilderness.

• Numbers 14:34

  According to the number of the days that you explored the land, forty days, a day for a year, a day for a year, you shall bear your iniquities, forty years, and you shall know my opposition.

• Numbers 26:7

  These are the families of the Reubenites, and those of them counted were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.

• Numbers 26:18

  These are the families of the sons of Gad, according to those of them counted: forty thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 26:41

  These are the sons of Benjamin by their families, and those of them counted were forty-five thousand six hundred.

• Numbers 26:50

  These are the families of Naphtali by their families, and those of them counted were forty-five thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 32:13

  YHWH’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation that had done evil in the eyes of YHWH was finished.

• Numbers 33:38

  Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of YHWH and died there, in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.

• Numbers 35:6

  And the cities that you shall give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge that you shall give for the manslayer to flee there; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.

• Numbers 35:7

  All the cities that you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, them and their pasturelands.

• Deuteronomy 1:3

  It was in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the sons of Israel according to all that YHWH had commanded him for them,

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