Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
seventy
Usage: ἑβδομήκοντα, οἱ, αἱ, τά, indecl. (ἑπτά), seventy: Luk.10:1, 17 Act.7:14 23:23 27:37.† (AS)
Hebdomekonta means “seventy” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1440 — gidom in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1440 ἑβδομήκοντα (hebdomekonta) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. hebdomekonta (heb-dom-ay'-kon-tah) n. 1. seventy [from G1442 and a modified form of G1176] It has 114 linked Bible usages across 27 books. Visible English usage signals include seventy and ten. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
hebdomekonta (heb-dom-ay'-kon-tah) n. 1. seventy [from G1442 and a modified form of G1176] KJV: seventy, three score and ten Root(s): G1442, G1176
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seventy
Usage: ἑβδομήκοντα, οἱ, αἱ, τά, indecl. (ἑπτά), seventy: Luk.10:1, 17 Act.7:14 23:23 27:37.† (AS)
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Strong's G1440 (ἑβδομήκοντα) appears 109 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
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5 indexed usages in New Testament.
After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
92 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Kenan lived a hundred and seventy years, and he begot Mahalalel.
And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And Nahor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Terah.
16 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
As for the house of the Lord, they burned it, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem, and set fire upon her towers:
The number of them of the nation, and their governors: the sons of Parosh, two thousand a hundred seventy and two: the sons of Shephatiah, four hundred seventy and two:
The sons of Arah, seven hundred fifty and six:
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
with them in all their uncleanness. And when their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement that is
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And Kenan lived a hundred and seventy years, and he begot Mahalalel.
And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And Nahor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Terah.
And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nahor, and Haran.
And Abram went as the Lord spoke to him, and Lot departed with him, and Abram was seventy-five years old, when he went out of Haran.
And these were the years of the days of the life of Abraham as many as he lived, a hundred and seventy-five years.
And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in the land of Egypt, were nine souls; all the souls of the house of Jacob who came with Joseph into Egypt, were seventy-five souls.
And they fulfilled forty days for him, for so are the days of embalming numbered; and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.
But Joseph was in Egypt. And all the souls born of Jacob were seventy-five.
And they came to Elim, and there were there twelve fountains of water, and seventy stems of palm trees; and they encamped there by the waters.
And to Moses he said, Go up to the Lord, thou and Aaron and Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: and they shall worship the Lord from a distance.
And Moses went up, and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel.
And the offering of silver from the men that were numbered of the congregation a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, one drachma apiece, even the half shekel, according to the holy shekel.
a hundred chapiters to the hundred talents, a talent to a chapiter.
And the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he formed into hooks for the pillars, and he gilded their chapiters and adorned them.
the numbering of them of the tribe of Judah, was seventy-four thousand and six hundred.
His forces that were numbered, were seventy-four thousand and six hundred.
And all the male firstborn in number by name, from a month old and upward, were according to their numbering twenty-two thousand and two hundred and seventy-three.
And for the ransoms of the two hundred and seventy-three which exceed the Levites in number of the firstborn of the sons of Israel;
And he brought his gift, one silver charger of a hundred and thirty shekels was its weight, one silver bowl, of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat offering.
And he brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat offering.
He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat offering.
He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat offering.
He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat offering.
He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat offering.
He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat offering.
He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering.
He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering.
He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat offering.
He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering.
He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering.
each charger of a hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl of seventy shekels: all the silver of the vessels was two thousand four hundred shekels, the shekels according to the holy shekel.
And the Lord said to Moses, Gather me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom thou thyself knowest that they are the elders of the people, and their scribes; and thou shalt bring them to the tabernacle of witness, and they shall stand there with thee.
And Moses went out, and spoke the words of the Lord to the people; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and he set them round about the tabernacle.
And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy men that were elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and ceased.
These are the families of Judah according to their numbering, seventy-six thousand and five hundred.
And that which remained of the spoil which the warriors took, was—of the sheep, six hundred and seventy-five thousand:
and oxen, seventy-two thousand:
And the tribute to the Lord from the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five.
And the oxen, six and thirty thousand, and the tribute to the Lord, seventy-two.
And they departed from Picriae, and came to Elim; and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.
With seventy souls your fathers went down into Egypt; but the Lord thy God has made thee as the stars of heaven in multitude.
And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I therefore have done, so God has recompensed me: and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
And he took prisoner a young lad of the men of Succoth, and questioned him; and he wrote to him the names of the princes of Succoth and of their elders, seventy-seven men.
And Gideon had seventy sons begotten of his body, for he had many wives.
Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, saying, Which is better for you, that seventy men, even all the sons of Jerubbaal, should reign over you, or that one man should reign over you? and remember that I am your bone and your flesh.
And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith; and Abimelech hired for himself vain and cowardly men, and they went after him.
And he went to the house of his father to Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men upon one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.
and ye are risen up this day against the house of my father, and have slain his sons, being seventy men, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech the son of his bondwoman king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother:
to bring the injury done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, and to lay their blood upon their brother Abimelech, who slew them, and upon the men of Shechem, because they strengthened his hands to slay his brethren.
So God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he wrought against his father, in slaying his seventy brethren.
And he had forty sons, and thirty grandsons, that rode upon seventy colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
And the sons of Jechonias were not pleased with the men of Beth-shemesh, because they saw the ark of the Lord; and the Lord smote among them seventy men, and fifty thousand men: and the people mourned, because the Lord had inflicted on the people a very great plague.
And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them to the inn, and set them there a place among the chief of those that were called, about seventy men.
And he reviews them at Bezek in Bama, every man of Israel six hundred thousand, and the men of Judah seventy thousand.
And David again gathered all the young men of Israel, about seventy thousand.
So David chose for himself the mortality: and they were the days of wheat harvest; and the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from morning till noon, and the plague began among the people; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote a letter, and sent it into Samaria to the rulers of Samaria, and to the elders, and to the guardians of the children of Ahab, saying,
And Jehu wrote them a second letter, saying, If ye are for me, and hearken to my voice, take the heads of the men your master’s sons, and bring them to me at this time tomorrow in Jezreel. Now the sons of the king were seventy men; these great men of the city brought them up.
And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons, and slew them, even seventy men, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel.
So the Lord brought pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
And Solomon gathered seventy thousand men that bore burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the mountain, and there were three thousand six hundred superintendents over them.
And he made of them seventy thousand burden-bearers, and eighty thousand hewers of stone, and three thousand six hundred taskmasters over the people.
And the number of the whole burnt offerings which the congregation brought, was seventy calves, a hundred rams, two hundred lambs: all these were for a whole burnt offering to the Lord.
and Sabbath keeping all the days of its desolation, till the accomplishment of seventy years.
The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.
And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.
Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.
Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the LORD.
The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
And Job lived after his affliction a hundred and seventy years: And all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: And Job saw his sons and his sons’ sons, the fourth generation.
As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; And if men should be in strength, eighty years: And the greater part of them would be labor and trouble; For weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man: and it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot.
And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, that God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.
And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation.
For thus said the Lord; When seventy years shall be on the point of being accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you, and will confirm my words to you, to bring back your people to this place.
And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood in their presence in the midst of them, and each one held his censer in his hand; and the smoke of the incense went up.
And the partition wall in front of the remaining space, toward the west, was seventy cubits in breadth; the breadth of the partition wall was five cubits round about, and the length of it ninety cubits.
I Daniel understood by books the number of the years which was the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, even seventy years for the accomplishment of the desolation of Jerusalem.
Seventy weeks have been determined upon thy people, and upon the holy city, for sin to be ended, and to seal up transgressions, and to blot out the iniquities, and to make atonement for iniquities, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal the vision and the prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy.
Speak to the whole people of the land, and to the priests, saying, Though ye fasted or lamented in the fifth or seventh months (yea, behold, these seventy years) have ye at all fasted to me?
After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
As for the house of the Lord, they burned it, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem, and set fire upon her towers:
The number of them of the nation, and their governors: the sons of Parosh, two thousand a hundred seventy and two: the sons of Shephatiah, four hundred seventy and two:
The sons of Arah, seven hundred fifty and six:
The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, the son of Jeshua, among the sons of Anasib, eight hundred seventy and two: the sons of Immer, two hundred fifty and two:
The Levites: the sons of Jeshua, and Kadmiel, and Bannas, and Sudias, seventy and four.
All the ministers of the temple, and the sons of the servants of Solomon, were three hundred seventy and two.
of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah son of Gotholiah, and with him seventy men:
of the sons of Shephatiah, Zeraiah son of Michael, and with him threescore and ten men:
of the sons of Adonikam the last, and these are the names of them, Eliphelet, son of Jeuel, and Shemaiah, and with them seventy men:
of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai the son of Istalcurus, and with him seventy men.
And with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Moeth the son of Sabban, Levites: all was delivered them by number and weight.
and built in Ecbatana walls round about of stones hewn three cubits broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the wall seventy cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits:
and he made the gates thereof, even gates that were raised to the height of seventy cubits, and the breadth of them was forty cubits, for the going forth of his mighty armies, and for the setting in array of his footmen:
Then their strong men removed their camps in that day, and the army of the men of war was a hundred and seventy thousand footmen, and twelve thousand horsemen, beside the baggage, and other men that were afoot among them, a very great multitude.
Now God had brought Daniel into favor and compassion with the chief of the eunuchs.
with them in all their uncleanness. And when their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement that is
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Hebdomekonta (Strong's G1440) is a Greek word most simply glossed "seventy". hebdomekonta (heb-dom-ay'-kon-tah) n. 1. seventy [from G1442 and a modified form of G1176]
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