Strong’s H6242 · Hebrew

עֶשְׂרִים
ʻesrîym
es-reem'

Definition

twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth

Etymology

from H6235 (עֶשֶׂר);

Where the KJV renders it

  • (six-) score
  • twenty(-ieth)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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