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Ezekiel 40:1
“In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H6242 · Hebrew
- Definition
- twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth
- Derivation
- from H6235 (עֶשֶׂר);
- KJV renderings
- (six-) score, twenty(-ieth).
- Grammar
- בְּ — preposition
- עֶשְׂרִ֣ים — cardinal number, both genders, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 315 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 6:3Genesis 8:14Genesis 11:24Genesis 18:31Genesis 18:31
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read עֶשְׂרִים here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.