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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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2 Kings 6:25
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.
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1611 witness · 2 Kings 6:25 · retained source text

And there was a great famine in Samaria: and behold, they besieged it, vntill an asses head was solde for fourescore pieces of siluer, and the fourth part of a kab of doues doung for fiue pieces of siluer.

2 Kings 10:24
And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 2 Kings 10:24 · retained source text

And when they went in to offer sacrifices, and burnt offerings, Iehu appointed fourescore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I haue brought into your hands, escape, hee that letteth him goe, his life shall be for the life of him.

2 Kings 19:35
¶ And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 2 Kings 19:35 · retained source text

¶ And it came to passe that night, that the Angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the campe of the Assyrians, an hundred foure score and fiue thousand: and when they arose earely in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

1611 marginal noteIsa. 37.36. tob. 1.21. ecclus. 48.24. 1.macc. 7.41. 2.Macca. 8.19.

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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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