eikosi · twenty

What it means

eikosi (εἴκοσι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “twenty”.

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 twenty: twice ten.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

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

• twenty ×6
• twenty-four ×5

Where it appears

• Luke×1
• John×1
• Acts×2
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Revelation×6

• Luke 14:31

  Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?

• John 6:19

  So when they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they see Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

• Acts 1:15

  And in these days Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers and said (and there was a crowd of persons gathered together, about a hundred and twenty):

• Acts 27:28

  And taking soundings they found twenty fathoms; and going a little farther and taking soundings again they found fifteen fathoms.

• 1 Corinthians 10:8

  Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

• Revelation 4:4

  And around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones twenty-four elders seated, clothed in white clothes, and on their heads golden crowns.

• Revelation 4:10

  the twenty-four elders will fall down before the one who sits on the throne and will worship the one who lives to the ages of the ages, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

• Revelation 5:8

  And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

• Revelation 11:16

  And the twenty-four elders who sit before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God,

• Revelation 19:4

  And the twenty four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, “Amen! Hallelujah!”

And 1 more times.