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fourscore

Meaning of “fourscore”

Eighty; four times twenty.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
36 occurrences35 verses19 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 16:16

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1 Chronicles 7:5
And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 1 Chronicles 7:5 · retained source text

And their brethren among all the families of Issachar, were men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies, fourescore and seuen thousand.

1 Chronicles 15:9
Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 1 Chronicles 15:9 · retained source text

Of the sonnes of Hebron: Eliel the chiefe, and his brethren fourescore.

1 Chronicles 25:7
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the Lord, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
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1611 witness · 1 Chronicles 25:7 · retained source text

So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, euen all that were cunning, was two hundred, foure score and eight.

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[See Score.] Four times twenty; eighty. It is used elliptically for fourscore years; as a man of fourscore

volume 1, leaf 801, column 1 (entry starts at OCR line 50)

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