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)
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What the first audience heard
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