Genesis 5:13
And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
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Forty
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Revelation 21:17
And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
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19 occurrences in 18 verses.
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Genesis
1412 verses
Exodus
97 verses
Leviticus
11 verses
Numbers
1918 verses
Deuteronomy
1510 verses
Joshua
55 verses
Judges
77 verses
1 Samuel
22 verses
2 Samuel
44 verses
1 Kings
109 verses
2 Kings
55 verses
1 Chronicles
44 verses
2 Chronicles
44 verses
Ezra
88 verses
Nehemiah
1414 verses
Job
11 verses
Psalms
11 verses
Jeremiah
11 verses
Ezekiel
66 verses
Amos
22 verses
Jonah
11 verses
Matthew
21 verses
Mark
11 verses
Luke
11 verses
John
11 verses
Acts
1010 verses
2 Corinthians
11 verses
Hebrews
22 verses
Revelation
66 verses
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אַרְבָּעִים
ʼarbâʻîym · ar-baw-eem'
131 times translated as this KJV form136 total Strong's occurrences
forty
Strong's KJV usage: forty.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 5:13Strong's last: Jonah 3:4
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tessarákonta · tes-sar-ak'-on-tah
22 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
forty
Strong's KJV usage: :--forty.
Strong's first: Matthew 4:2Strong's last: Revelation 21:17
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ʼarbaʻ · ar-bah'
2 times translated as this KJV form312 total Strong's occurrences
four
Strong's KJV usage: four.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezra 2:64Strong's last: Nehemiah 7:66
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H705
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
H705
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
H705
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
H705
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
H705
And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
H705
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
H705
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.
H705
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
H705
And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
H705
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
H705
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
H705
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
H705
These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
H705
These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
H705
These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.
H705
These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
H705
And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
H705
And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.
H705
So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
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forty
FOR'TY, adjective [See Four.]
1. Four times ten.
2. An indefinite number; a colloquial use. A, B and C, and forty more.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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