esrim · twenty

What it means

esrim (עֶשְׂרִים) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “twenty”.

Also "twentieth".

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 number twenty, which also forms twenty-one to twenty-nine.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Twenty. It is the plural of “ten”, and it also stands as an ordinal, “twentieth”.

• The number twenty Genesis 18:31Genesis 37:28
• “From twenty years old and upward” Exodus 30:14Numbers 1:3

Historical and cultural background

The law counted “from twenty years old and upward”: at that age the contribution to YHWH, half a shekel, was given (Exodus 30:13-14), and one went out to the army (Numbers 1:3).

How we translate it

“Twenty” 308 times, “twentieth” 7. In compound figures (“twenty-five”, “twenty-two”) English joins it to the other number.

How it is translated

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

• twenty ×308
• twentieth ×7

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×12
• Exodus×23
• Leviticus×4
• Numbers×32
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×2
• Judges×12
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×9
• 1 Kings×25
• 2 Kings×19
• 1 Chronicles×41
• 2 Chronicles×36
• Ezra×20
• Nehemiah×19
• Esther×4
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×37
• Daniel×2
• Haggai×7
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 6:3

  And YHWH said, “My spirit will not remain in the human being forever, for he also is flesh; and his days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

• Genesis 8:14

  And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

• Genesis 11:24

  Nahor lived twenty-nine years and fathered Terah.

• Genesis 18:31

  He said, “Look, I have ventured to speak to Adonai: perhaps twenty will be found there.” He said, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.”

• Genesis 23:1

  The life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.

• Genesis 31:38

  These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock I have not eaten.

• Genesis 31:41

  These twenty years I have had in your house: I served you fourteen years for the two of your daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.

• Genesis 32:14

  two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

• Genesis 32:15

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

• Genesis 37:28

  Then Midianite men, traders, passed by; and they drew and lifted Joseph out of the cistern and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver; and they brought Joseph to Egypt.

• Exodus 12:18

  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month, in the evening.

• Exodus 26:2

  The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; one measure for all the curtains.

• Exodus 26:18

  You shall make the boards for the dwelling: twenty boards for the southern side, toward the south.

• 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 26:20

  And for the second side of the dwelling, on the north side, twenty boards,

• Exodus 27:10

  and its pillars twenty, and their bases twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their rods shall be of silver.

• Exodus 27:11

  And likewise for the north side, in length, hangings a hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their bases twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their rods shall be of silver.

• Exodus 27:16

  For the gate of the courtyard there shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer, their pillars four and their bases four.

• Exodus 30:13

  This they shall give, everyone who passes over to those numbered: half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to YHWH.

• Exodus 30:14

  Everyone who passes over to those numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the contribution of YHWH.

• Exodus 36:9

  The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width four cubits for each curtain; one measure for all the curtains.

• Exodus 36:23

  And he made the boards for the dwelling: twenty boards for the south side,

• 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 36:25

  And for the second side of the dwelling, on the north side, he made twenty boards,

• Exodus 38:10

  their pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their rods were of silver.

• Exodus 38:11

  And for the north side, a hundred cubits; their pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their rods were of silver.

• Exodus 38:18

  And the screen of the gate of the courtyard was the work of an embroiderer, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in width five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the courtyard.

• Exodus 38:24

  All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary, the gold of the wave offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.

• Exodus 38:26

  a beka per head, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

• Leviticus 27:3

  the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be a valuation of fifty shekels of silver, by the shekel of the sanctuary.

• Leviticus 27:5

  And if from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation of the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

• Leviticus 27:25

  And every valuation shall be by the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

• Numbers 1:3

  From twenty years old and upward, everyone in Israel who goes out to the army, you shall count them by their armies, you and Aaron.

• Numbers 1:18

  and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month, and they declared their descent by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head,

• Numbers 1:20

  The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:22

  Of the sons of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those of them counted, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:24

  Of the sons of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:26

  Of the sons of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:28

  Of the sons of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:30

  Of the sons of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

And 275 more times.