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threescore

Meaning of “threescore”

Thrice twenty; sixty.

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First occurrence: Genesis 25:7

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Daniel 3:1
NEBUCHADNEZZAR the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Daniel 3:1 · retained source text

¶ Nebuchad-nezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and y e breadth thereof sixe cubites: he set it vp in the plaine of Dura, in the prouince of Babylon.

Daniel 5:31
And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
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1611 witness · Daniel 5:31 · retained source text

And Darius the Median tooke the kingdome, being about threescore and two yeere old.

1611 marginal noteCald. he as the Sonne of, &c.

1611 marginal noteOr, now.

Daniel 9:25
Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
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1611 witness · Daniel 9:25 · retained source text

Know therefore and vnderstand, that from the going foorth of the commandement to restore and to build Ierusalem, vnto the Messiah the Prince, shall be seuen weekes; and threescore and two weekes, the street shall be built againe, and the wall, euen in troublous times.

1611 marginal noteHeb. shall returne and be built.

1611 marginal noteOr, breach or ditch.

1611 marginal noteHebr. in strait of times.

Daniel 9:26
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
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1611 witness · Daniel 9:26 · retained source text

And after threescore and two weekes, shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himselfe, and the people of the Prince that shall come, shall destroy the citie, and the Sanctuarie, and the ende thereof shall be with a flood, and vnto the ende of the warre desolations are determined.

1611 marginal noteOr, shall haue nothing.

1611 marginal noteOr, it shall be cut off by desolations.

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