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Strong's H8084 שְׁמֹנִים (shemonim)

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

Strong's Number H8084
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 37
Books 18

Strong's H8084 Quick Answer

Strong's H8084 שְׁמוֹנִים שְׁמוֹנִים (shmoniym) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shmoniym (shem-o-neem') (or shmowniym {shem-o-neem'}) adj. 1. eighty, also eightieth [mult. from H8083] It has 37 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include fourscore, eighty, and eightieth. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
shmoniym (shem-o-neem') (or shmowniym {shem-o-neem'}) adj. 1. eighty, also eightieth [mult. from H8083]
Usage
37 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
fourscore, eighty, and eightieth

Meaning and Definition

shmoniym (shem-o-neem') (or shmowniym {shem-o-neem'}) adj. 1. eighty, also eightieth [mult. from H8083] KJV: eighty(-ieth), fourscore. Root(s): H8083

Original Word
שְׁמוֹנִים שְׁמוֹנִים
Transliteration
shmoniym
Derivation
First root strongs: 8083
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H8084. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

eighty

Usage: 1) eighty, fourscore 1a) eighty (as cardinal number) 1b) eightieth (as ordinal number) 1c) in combination with other numbers

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How Strong's H8084 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shmoniym, 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.

fourscore Exodus 7:7 31× eighty Genesis 5:25 eightieth 1 Kings 6:1

How Strong's H8084 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 37 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H8084 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 H8084 in the Old Testament

37 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 5:25 KJV

And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.

Genesis 5:26 KJV

And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:28 KJV

And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:

Usage Excerpts

First 37 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8084.

Genesis 5:25 Old Testament, KJV
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.
Genesis 5:26 Old Testament, KJV
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
Genesis 16:16 Old Testament, KJV
And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
Genesis 35:28 Old Testament, KJV
And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
Exodus 7:7 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
Numbers 2:9 Old Testament, KJV
All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
Numbers 4:48 Old Testament, KJV
Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore,
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.
Judges 3:30 Old Testament, KJV
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
1 Samuel 22:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
2 Samuel 19:32 Old Testament, KJV
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
2 Samuel 19:35 Old Testament, KJV
I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
1 Kings 5:15 Old Testament, KJV
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
1 Kings 6:1 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
1 Kings 12:21 Old Testament, KJV
And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
2 Kings 6:25 Old Testament, KJV
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
2 Kings 10:24 Old Testament, KJV
And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
2 Kings 19:35 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
1 Chronicles 7:5 Old Testament, KJV
And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.
1 Chronicles 15:9 Old Testament, KJV
Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore:
1 Chronicles 25:7 Old Testament, KJV
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
2 Chronicles 2:2 Old Testament, KJV
And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
2 Chronicles 2:18 Old Testament, KJV
And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
2 Chronicles 11:1 Old Testament, KJV
And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
2 Chronicles 14:8 Old Testament, KJV
And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.
2 Chronicles 17:15 Old Testament, KJV
And next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand.
2 Chronicles 17:18 Old Testament, KJV
And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.
2 Chronicles 26:17 Old Testament, KJV
And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
Ezra 8:8 Old Testament, KJV
And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.
Nehemiah 7:26 Old Testament, KJV
The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.
Nehemiah 11:18 Old Testament, KJV
All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.
Esther 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.
Psalms 90:10 Old Testament, KJV
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Song of Solomon 6:8 Old Testament, KJV
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
Isaiah 37:36 Old Testament, KJV
Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Jeremiah 41:5 Old Testament, KJV
That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8084, grouped by book.

Genesis 5 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 7 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Old Testament
Nehemiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H8084 FAQ

What does shemonim (שְׁמֹנִים) mean?

Shemonim (Strong's H8084) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "fourscore". shmoniym (shem-o-neem') (or shmowniym {shem-o-neem'}) adj. 1. eighty, also eightieth [mult. from H8083]

How many times is shemonim (שְׁמֹנִים) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 37 linked usages for Strong's H8084 across 18 books.

Where can I study shemonim (שְׁמֹנִים) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8084 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate shemonim (שְׁמֹנִים)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as fourscore, eighty, and eightieth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.