עֶשְׂרִים
ʻesrîym · es-reem'
twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6235 (עֶשֶׂר);
twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth
- twenty
- also, (ordinal) twentieth
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (six-) score, twenty(-ieth).
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › to consume, to destroy › the head, the highest › the hand that works › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To see and know that works to consume, to destroy of the head, the highest of the hand that works of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֶשְׂרִים above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
315 occurrences · 315 OT · 0 NT · 40 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and twenty87 · 31%
- twenty75 · 26%
- and twentieth27 · 9%
- from twenty25 · 9%
- were twenty19 · 7%
- was twenty16 · 6%
- of twenty8 · 3%
- in the twenty4 · 1%
- the twentieth2 · 1%
- is twenty2 · 1%
- and his twenty2 · 1%
- thereof twenty2 · 1%
- under the twenty2 · 1%
- in the twentieth2 · 1%
- for twenty2 · 1%
- of them, were twenty1 · 0%
- even unto twenty1 · 0%
- thereof and their twenty1 · 0%
- and the twenty1 · 0%
- there shall be twenty1 · 0%
- thus have i been twenty1 · 0%
- and their twenty1 · 0%
- this twenty1 · 0%
- it for twenty's1 · 0%
- peradventure there shall be twenty1 · 0%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.