The meaning of “עֶשְׂרִים”
Understanding ʻesrîym reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
(six-) score, twenty(-ieth). - twenty - also (ordinal) twentieth 1) twenty, twentieth
עֶשְׂרִים
(six-) score, twenty(-ieth). - twenty - also (ordinal) twentieth 1) twenty, twentieth
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| Genesis 31:38 | “This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.” Word: עֶשְׂרִים (ʻesrîym) | |
| Deuteronomy 34:7 | “And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.” Word: עֶשְׂרִים (ʻesrîym) | |
| 2 Samuel 10:6 | “And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth–rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish–tob twelve thousand men.” Word: עֶשְׂרִים (ʻesrîym) | |
| 2 Chronicles 13:21 | “But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.” Word: עֶשְׂרִים (ʻesrîym) | |
| Jeremiah 52:28 | “This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:” Word: עֶשְׂרִים (ʻesrîym) |