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# עֶשְׂרִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6242

**twenty** — used 315 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

twenty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6242/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶשְׂרִים: n.pl.indecl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6242/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pl.indecl. (a) twenty (ancient pl. of עֶשֶׂר Prä BAS i. 376; NH = BH; Arabic عِشْرُونَ; Assyrian ešrâ; Sab. עשרי HomChrest. 48; Ethiopic ዕሥራ: Aramaic עשרין, ܥܶܣܪܝܺܢ; Nab. עשרין);— as cardinal: without other num.: usually sq. n.s. (especially שָׁנָה, אִישׁ, אַמָּה, etc.) Gn 31:38 1 S 14:14 Ex 38:18 + 64 times, + עֶשְׂרִים אֶלֶף 20,000 1 Ch 18:4 + 7 times + Ez 45:1 (reading עֶשְׂרִים אָ֑לֶף, v. עֶשֶׂר 2 b). sq. n.pl. 2 S 3:20; Ex 36:23, 24, 25 + 4 times. sq. n.s. coll. 1 K 5:3. n.pl. precedes Gn 32:15(×2), 16; 2 Ch 3:3 + 6 times n. om. Gn 18:31(×2) (הָע׳), 1 K 6:2 + 6 times, as pred. Ex 27:10(×2), 11(×2) + 4 times. + בָּאַמָּה Zc 5:2. + other num.: c. units, usually 20 + (c. וְ) unit + n.s. Ju 10:2, 3 1 K 14:20 + 58 times (incl. 20 + 1 × 1000, etc., 27 times); n. om. Jos 15:32 + 2 times pred.; less often unit + 20 + n.s. Gn 11:24 Ex 38:24 Nu 8:24 (all P) + 27 times; unit + 20 + בָּאַמָּה Ez 40:21 Ex 26:2; 36:9 (both P). 20 + unit + n.pl. Nu 7:8(×2) (P), 1 Ch 2:22 + 3 times Chr. n.pl. + 20 + unit Jos 19:30 1 Ch 12:29 (van d. H. v 28). c. hundreds, 20 usually foll.; sq. n.s. 1 K 9:14 Gn 6:3 Dt 31:2 + 7 times; n. om. 2 Ch 3:4 Ezr 2:32 = Ne 7:35; 20 + 100 (n. om.) Nu 7:86. n.pl. + 100 + 20 1 Ch 15:5, 6;—cf. further מֵאָה. as ordinal: 20 alone, בִּשְׁנַת ע׳ in the twentieth year 1 K 15:9 + 4 times; n. om. Nu 10:11 + 3 times. 20 + unit + ns. Ez 29:17; 40:1. ns. + 20 + unit Hg 1:15; 2 Ch 7:10 +; ns. + unit + 20 Ex 12:8; בִּשְׁנַת + 20 + unit 1 K 16:10, etc.—Vid. reff. sub עֶשֶׂר.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 46 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: twenty (233); of twenty (49); \[was\] twenty (14).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.19/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י חָשֻׁ֔ם מָאתַ֖יִם עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Hashum two.hundred twenty and three

*JPS 1917:* The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three.

[Ezra 2:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.23/#tree)

אַנְשֵׁ֣י עֲנָת֔וֹת מֵאָ֖ה עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁמֹנָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.men of.Anathoth one.hundred twenty and eight

*JPS 1917:* The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty and eight.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6242/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).