--- title: עֶשְׂרִים — twenty · The Tanakh dictionary description: עֶשְׂרִים (6242), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 315 times: twenty. BDB 1906: n.pl.indecl. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6242.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ע](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1506-6.md)‎ / עֶשְׂרִים‎ # עֶשְׂרִים «עֶשְׂרִים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **twenty** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 315 times · **Key:** 6242 · **BDB:** עֶשְׂרִים ### Glosses twenty (233); of.twenty (49); \[was\].twenty (14) ### Meaning (OSHB) twenty [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6242/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.pl.indecl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6242/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.pl.indecl. (a) twenty (ancient pl. of עֶשֶׂר Prä BAS i. 376; NH = BH; Arabic عِشْرُونَ; Assyrian ešrâ; Sab. עשרי HomChrest. 48; Ethiopic ዕሥራ: Aramaic עשרין, ܥܶܣܪܝܺܢ; Nab. עשרין);— as cardinal: without other num.: usually sq. n.s. (especially שָׁנָה, אִישׁ, אַמָּה, etc.) Gn 31:38 1 S 14:14 Ex 38:18 + 64 times, + עֶשְׂרִים אֶלֶף 20,000 1 Ch 18:4 + 7 times + Ez 45:1 (reading עֶשְׂרִים אָ֑לֶף, v. עֶשֶׂר 2 b). sq. n.pl. 2 S 3:20; Ex 36:23, 24, 25 + 4 times. sq. n.s. coll. 1 K 5:3. n.pl. precedes Gn 32:15(×2), 16; 2 Ch 3:3 + 6 times n. om. Gn 18:31(×2) (הָע׳), 1 K 6:2 + 6 times, as pred. Ex 27:10(×2), 11(×2) + 4 times. + בָּאַמָּה Zc 5:2. + other num.: c. units, usually 20 + (c. וְ) unit + n.s. Ju 10:2, 3 1 K 14:20 + 58 times (incl. 20 + 1 × 1000, etc., 27 times); n. om. Jos 15:32 + 2 times pred.; less often unit + 20 + n.s. Gn 11:24 Ex 38:24 Nu 8:24 (all P) + 27 times; unit + 20 + בָּאַמָּה Ez 40:21 Ex 26:2; 36:9 (both P). 20 + unit + n.pl. Nu 7:8(×2) (P), 1 Ch 2:22 + 3 times Chr. n.pl. + 20 + unit Jos 19:30 1 Ch 12:29 (van d. H. v 28). c. hundreds, 20 usually foll.; sq. n.s. 1 K 9:14 Gn 6:3 Dt 31:2 + 7 times; n. om. 2 Ch 3:4 Ezr 2:32 = Ne 7:35; 20 + 100 (n. om.) Nu 7:86. n.pl. + 100 + 20 1 Ch 15:5, 6;—cf. further מֵאָה. as ordinal: 20 alone, בִּשְׁנַת ע׳ in the twentieth year 1 K 15:9 + 4 times; n. om. Nu 10:11 + 3 times. 20 + unit + ns. Ez 29:17; 40:1. ns. + 20 + unit Hg 1:15; 2 Ch 7:10 +; ns. + unit + 20 Ex 12:8; בִּשְׁנַת + 20 + unit 1 K 16:10, etc.—Vid. reff. sub עֶשֶׂר. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 46 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «עֶשְׂרִים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6242/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Ezra 2:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.19/) בְּנֵ֣י חָשֻׁ֔ם מָאתַ֖יִם עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ס *Word for word:* the.descendants of.Hashum two.hundred twenty and three *JPS 1917:* The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three. [Ezra 2:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.23/) אַנְשֵׁ֣י עֲנָת֔וֹת מֵאָ֖ה עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁמֹנָֽה׃ס *Word for word:* the.men of.Anathoth one.hundred twenty and eight *JPS 1917:* The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty and eight. - ← previous: [עִשָּׂרוֹן](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6241.md) - next →: [עָשֵׁשׁ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6244.md) - ↑ back to [ע](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1506-6.md)