# אַרְבָּעִים (arbaim) Israeli respelling: ar-ba-im. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H705. 123 Old Testament occurrences. forty King James renderings: -forty. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/arbaim-h705 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 5:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/13) — And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: - [Genesis 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/7/4) — 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 wil… - [Genesis 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/7/12) — And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. - [Genesis 7:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/7/17) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/8/6) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/18/28) — 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 fo… - [Genesis 18:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/18/29) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/25/20) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/26/34) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/32/15) — Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. - [Genesis 47:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/47/28) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/3) — And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threesc… - [Exodus 16:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/35) — 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 bor… - [Exodus 24:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/24/18) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/26/19) — 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… - [Exodus 26:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/26/21) — And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. - [Exodus 34:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/34/28) — 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 wor… - [Exodus 36:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/36/24) — 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… - [Exodus 36:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/36/26) — And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. - [Leviticus 25:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/8) — 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 unt… - [Numbers 1:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/21) — Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred. - [Numbers 1:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/25) — Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty. - [Numbers 1:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/33) — Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred. - [Numbers 1:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/41) — Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred. - [Numbers 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/11) — And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred. - [Numbers 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/15) — And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty. - [Numbers 2:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/19) — And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred. - [Numbers 2:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/28) — And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred. - [Numbers 13:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/13/25) — And they returned from searching of the land after forty days. - [Numbers 14:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/33) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/34) — 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… - [Numbers 26:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/26/7) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/26/18) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/26/41) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/26/50) — These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four h… - [Numbers 32:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/13) — 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… - [Numbers 33:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/38) — 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 Isra… - [Numbers 35:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/35/6) — 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, t… - [Numbers 35:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/35/7) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/3) — 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 Israe… - [Deuteronomy 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/7) — 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 year… - [Deuteronomy 8:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/2) — 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,… - [Deuteronomy 8:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/4) — Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. - [Deuteronomy 9:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/9) — 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 abod… - [Deuteronomy 9:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/11) — 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 covena… - [Deuteronomy 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/18) — 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 you… - [Deuteronomy 9:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/25) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/10/10) — 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… - [Deuteronomy 25:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/25/3) — 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 shou… - [Deuteronomy 29:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/5) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/4/13) — About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho. - [Joshua 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/5/6) — 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 co… - [Joshua 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/14/7) — 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… - [Joshua 14:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/14/10) — 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… - [Joshua 21:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/21/41) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/3/11) — And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died. - [Judges 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/8) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/31) — 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 f… - [Judges 8:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/8/28) — 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 y… - [Judges 12:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/12/6) — 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 s… - [Judges 12:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/12/14) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/13/1) — 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 year… - [1 Samuel 4:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/4/18) — 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… - [1 Samuel 17:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/16) — And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. - [2 Samuel 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/2/10) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/5/4) — David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. - [2 Samuel 10:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/10/18) — And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote… - [2 Samuel 15:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/15/7) — 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… - [1 Kings 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/2/11) — 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 Je… - [1 Kings 4:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/4/26) — And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. - [1 Kings 6:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/6/17) — And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long. - [1 Kings 7:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/3) — And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row. - [1 Kings 7:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/38) — 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… - [1 Kings 11:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/42) — And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. - [1 Kings 14:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/14/21) — 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 yea… - [1 Kings 15:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/15/10) — And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. - [1 Kings 19:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/19/8) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/2/24) — 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 ta… - [2 Kings 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/9) — 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 bef… - [2 Kings 10:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/14) — 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 lef… - [2 Kings 12:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/12/1) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/14/23) — 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 rei… - [1 Chronicles 5:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/5/18) — 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… - [1 Chronicles 12:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/12/36) — And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand. - [1 Chronicles 19:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/19/18) — But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen,… - [1 Chronicles 26:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/26/31) — Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of… - [1 Chronicles 29:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/27) — 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 Jerusa… - [2 Chronicles 9:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/9/30) — And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. - [2 Chronicles 12:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/12/13) — So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he re… - [2 Chronicles 16:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/16/13) — And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign. - [2 Chronicles 22:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/2) — 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 d… - [2 Chronicles 24:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/24/1) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/2/8) — The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five. - [Ezra 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/2/10) — The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two. - [Ezra 2:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/2/24) — The children of Azmaveth, forty and two. - [Ezra 2:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/2/25) — The children of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three. - [Ezra 2:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/2/34) — The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five. - [Ezra 2:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/2/38) — The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven. - [Ezra 2:66](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/2/66) — Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five; - [Nehemiah 5:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/5/15) — But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekel… - [Nehemiah 7:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/13) — The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five. - [Nehemiah 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/15) — The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight. - [Nehemiah 7:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/28) — The men of Bethazmaveth, forty and two. - [Nehemiah 7:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/29) — The men of Kirjathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three. - [Nehemiah 7:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/36) — The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five. - [Nehemiah 7:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/41) — The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven. - [Nehemiah 7:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/44) — The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight. - [Nehemiah 7:62](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/62) — The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two. - [Nehemiah 7:67](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/67) — Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred… - [Nehemiah 9:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/21) — Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelle… - [Nehemiah 11:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/11/13) — 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 Meshillemo… - [Job 42:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/42/16) — After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations. - [Psalms 95:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/95/10) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/52/30) — In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty… - [Ezekiel 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/4/6) — 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 hav… - [Ezekiel 29:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/11) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/12) — 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 w… - [Ezekiel 29:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/13) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/2) — 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:… - [Ezekiel 46:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/46/22) — In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure. - [Amos 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/2/10) — Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. - [Amos 5:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/25) — Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? - [Jonah 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/3/4) — And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.