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Strong's H705 אַרְבָּעִים (arbaim)

Arbaim means “forty” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G705 — arithmeo (“number”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H705
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 124
Books 21

Strong's H705 Quick Answer

Strong's H705 אַרבָּעִים (arba`iym) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. arba`iym (ar-baw-eem') adj. 1. forty [multiple of H702] It has 124 linked Bible usages across 21 books. Visible English usage signals include forty. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
arba`iym (ar-baw-eem') adj. 1. forty [multiple of H702]
Usage
124 linked usages
Books
21 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
forty

Meaning and Definition

arba`iym (ar-baw-eem') adj. 1. forty [multiple of H702] KJV: forty. Root(s): H702

Original Word
אַרבָּעִים
Transliteration
arba`iym
Derivation
First root strongs: 702
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H705. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H705 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render arba`iym, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

forty Genesis 5:13 116×

How Strong's H705 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 124 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H705 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H705 in the Old Testament

124 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 5:13 KJV

And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

Genesis 7:4 KJV

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

Genesis 7:12 KJV

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H705.

Genesis 5:13 Old Testament, KJV
And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 7:4 Old Testament, KJV
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Genesis 7:12 Old Testament, KJV
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:17 Old Testament, KJV
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Genesis 8:6 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
Genesis 18:28 Old Testament, KJV
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
Genesis 18:29 Old Testament, KJV
And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.
Genesis 25:20 Old Testament, KJV
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
Genesis 26:34 Old Testament, KJV
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Genesis 32:15 Old Testament, KJV
Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
Genesis 47:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
Genesis 50:3 Old Testament, KJV
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Exodus 16:35 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
Exodus 24:18 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Exodus 26:19 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
Exodus 26:21 Old Testament, KJV
And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Exodus 34:28 Old Testament, KJV
And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Exodus 36:24 Old Testament, KJV
And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
Exodus 36:26 Old Testament, KJV
And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Leviticus 25:8 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Numbers 1:21 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 1:25 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
Numbers 1:33 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 1:41 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 2:11 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 2:15 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
Numbers 2:19 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 2:28 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 13:25 Old Testament, KJV
And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
Numbers 14:33 Old Testament, KJV
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
Numbers 14:34 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Numbers 26:7 Old Testament, KJV
These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
Numbers 26:18 Old Testament, KJV
These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 26:41 Old Testament, KJV
These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.
Numbers 26:50 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Numbers 32:13 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Numbers 33:38 Old Testament, KJV
And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
Numbers 35:6 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Numbers 35:7 Old Testament, KJV
So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
Deuteronomy 1:3 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
Deuteronomy 2:7 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
Deuteronomy 8:2 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Deuteronomy 8:4 Old Testament, KJV
Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
Deuteronomy 9:9 Old Testament, KJV
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
Deuteronomy 9:11 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
Deuteronomy 9:18 Old Testament, KJV
And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Deuteronomy 9:25 Old Testament, KJV
Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
Deuteronomy 10:10 Old Testament, KJV
And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
Deuteronomy 25:3 Old Testament, KJV
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
Deuteronomy 29:5 Old Testament, KJV
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Joshua 4:13 Old Testament, KJV
About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
Joshua 5:6 Old Testament, KJV
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Joshua 14:7 Old Testament, KJV
Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
Joshua 14:10 Old Testament, KJV
And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
Joshua 21:41 Old Testament, KJV
All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
Judges 3:11 Old Testament, KJV
And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
Judges 5:8 Old Testament, KJV
They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Judges 5:31 Old Testament, KJV
So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
Judges 8:28 Old Testament, KJV
Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
Judges 12:6 Old Testament, KJV
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
Judges 12:14 Old Testament, KJV
And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
Judges 13:1 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
1 Samuel 4:18 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
1 Samuel 17:16 Old Testament, KJV
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
2 Samuel 2:10 Old Testament, KJV
Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
2 Samuel 5:4 Old Testament, KJV
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
2 Samuel 10:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.
2 Samuel 15:7 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.
1 Kings 2:11 Old Testament, KJV
And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
1 Kings 4:26 Old Testament, KJV
And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
1 Kings 6:17 Old Testament, KJV
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
1 Kings 7:3 Old Testament, KJV
And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
1 Kings 7:38 Old Testament, KJV
Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
1 Kings 11:42 Old Testament, KJV
And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
1 Kings 14:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
1 Kings 15:10 Old Testament, KJV
And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 19:8 Old Testament, KJV
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
2 Kings 2:24 Old Testament, KJV
And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
2 Kings 8:9 Old Testament, KJV
So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
2 Kings 10:14 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.
2 Kings 12:1 Old Testament, KJV
In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2 Kings 14:23 Old Testament, KJV
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
1 Chronicles 5:18 Old Testament, KJV
The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.
1 Chronicles 12:36 Old Testament, KJV
And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
1 Chronicles 19:18 Old Testament, KJV
But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
1 Chronicles 26:31 Old Testament, KJV
Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 29:27 Old Testament, KJV
And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 9:30 Old Testament, KJV
And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
2 Chronicles 12:13 Old Testament, KJV
So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
2 Chronicles 16:13 Old Testament, KJV
And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
2 Chronicles 22:2 Old Testament, KJV
Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
2 Chronicles 24:1 Old Testament, KJV
Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Zibiah of Beersheba.
Ezra 2:8 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.
Ezra 2:10 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
Ezra 2:24 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.
Ezra 2:25 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.
Ezra 2:34 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
Ezra 2:38 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
Ezra 2:66 Old Testament, KJV
Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
Nehemiah 5:15 Old Testament, KJV
But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Nehemiah 7:13 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.
Nehemiah 7:15 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.
Nehemiah 7:28 Old Testament, KJV
The men of Bethazmaveth, forty and two.
Nehemiah 7:29 Old Testament, KJV
The men of Kirjathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.
Nehemiah 7:36 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
Nehemiah 7:41 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
Nehemiah 7:44 Old Testament, KJV
The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.
Nehemiah 7:62 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
Nehemiah 7:67 Old Testament, KJV
Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.
Nehemiah 7:68 Old Testament, KJV
Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:
Nehemiah 9:21 Old Testament, KJV
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
Nehemiah 11:13 Old Testament, KJV
And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
Job 42:16 Old Testament, KJV
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
Psalms 95:10 Old Testament, KJV
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
Jeremiah 52:30 Old Testament, KJV
In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
Ezekiel 4:6 Old Testament, KJV
And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
Ezekiel 29:11 Old Testament, KJV
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
Ezekiel 29:12 Old Testament, KJV
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
Ezekiel 29:13 Old Testament, KJV
Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:
Ezekiel 41:2 Old Testament, KJV
And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H705, grouped by book.

Genesis 12 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 7 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 19 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 11 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 5 usages, Old Testament
Judges 7 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 4 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 9 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 5 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 5 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 5 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 7 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 13 usages, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 6 usages, Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Old Testament
Jonah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H705 FAQ

What does arbaim (אַרְבָּעִים) mean?

Arbaim (Strong's H705) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "forty". arba`iym (ar-baw-eem') adj. 1. forty [multiple of H702]

How many times is arbaim (אַרְבָּעִים) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 124 linked usages for Strong's H705 across 21 books.

Where can I study arbaim (אַרְבָּעִים) in context?

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What English words translate arbaim (אַרְבָּעִים)?

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