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עֶשְׂרִים H6242
H6242 is the Hebrew word עֶשְׂרִים, transliterated ʻesrîym and said es-reem'. The King James Version most often renders it twenty.
What it means
twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth.
Where it comes from
from H6235 (עֶשֶׂר).
How the King James Version translates it
Across 297 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: (six-) score, twenty(-ieth).
Verses using עֶשְׂרִים
The first 40 of 275 verses, quoted in full.
Genesis 6:3 · KJV
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 8:14 · KJV
And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
Genesis 11:24 · KJV
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
Genesis 18:31 · KJV
And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.
Genesis 23:1 · KJV
And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
Genesis 31:38 · KJV
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.
Genesis 31:41 · KJV
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Genesis 32:14 · KJV
Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
Genesis 32:15 · KJV
Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
Genesis 37:28 · KJV
Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Exodus 12:18 · KJV
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
Exodus 26:2 · KJV
The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.
Exodus 26:18 · KJV
And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
Exodus 26:19 · 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 26:20 · KJV
And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
Exodus 27:10 · KJV
And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
Exodus 27:11 · KJV
And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
Exodus 27:16 · KJV
And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
Exodus 30:13 · KJV
This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
Exodus 30:14 · KJV
Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
Exodus 36:9 · KJV
The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
Exodus 36:23 · KJV
And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
Exodus 36:24 · 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 36:25 · KJV
And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
Exodus 38:10 · KJV
Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
Exodus 38:11 · KJV
And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
Exodus 38:18 · KJV
And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
Exodus 38:24 · KJV
All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Exodus 38:26 · KJV
A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
Leviticus 27:3 · KJV
And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Leviticus 27:5 · KJV
And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
Leviticus 27:25 · KJV
And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
Numbers 1:3 · KJV
From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
Numbers 1:18 · KJV
And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
Numbers 1:20 · KJV
And the children of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers 1:22 · KJV
Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers 1:24 · KJV
Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers 1:26 · KJV
Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers 1:28 · KJV
Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers 1:30 · KJV
Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Common questions
What does Strong's H6242 mean?
H6242 is the Hebrew word עֶשְׂרִים (ʻesrîym), meaning twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth.
How is H6242 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it twenty (250 times), twentieth (34 times), thereof twenty (3 times), under the twenty (2 times), peradventure there shall be twenty (1 time), among others.
How many times does H6242 appear in the Bible?
עֶשְׂרִים (ʻesrîym) is tagged in 275 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H6242 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: from H6235 (עֶשֶׂר).
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