Hebrew word · H8084

שְׁמֹנִים

shemonim

eighty

Appears 38 times in 37 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

1) eighty, fourscore

1a) eighty (as cardinal number)

1b) eightieth (as ordinal number)

1c) in combination with other numbers

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

Genesis · 5
  1. Genesis 5:25 וּשְׁמֹנִ֛ים and eighty

    When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.

  2. Genesis 5:26 וּשְׁמוֹנִים֙ and eighty

    And after he had become the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

  3. Genesis 5:28 וּשְׁמֹנִ֛ים and eighty

    When Lamech was 182 years old, he had a son.

  4. Genesis 16:16 שְׁמֹנִ֥ים eighty

    Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

  5. Genesis 35:28 וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים and eighty

    And Isaac lived 180 years.

Exodus · 2
  1. Exodus 7:7 שְׁמֹנִ֣ים וּשְׁמֹנִ֖ים eighty, and eighty

    Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Numbers · 2
  1. Numbers 2:9 וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים and eighty

    The total number of men in the divisions of the camp of Judah is 186,400; they shall set out first.

  2. Numbers 4:48 וּשְׁמֹנִֽים׃ and eighty

    And the number of men was 8,580.

Joshua · 1
  1. Joshua 14:10 וּשְׁמוֹנִ֖ים and eighty

    Now behold, as the LORD promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old,

    Here: Completes "eighty-five." That is beyond the seventy or eighty years Ps 90:10 treats as a full human life.

Judges · 1
  1. Judges 3:30 שְׁמוֹנִ֥ים eighty

    So Moab was subdued under the hand of Israel that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.

1 Samuel · 1
  1. 1 Samuel 22:18 שְׁמֹנִ֤ים eighty

    So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

2 Samuel · 2
  1. 2 Samuel 19:32 שְׁמֹנִ֖ים eighty

    Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.

  2. 2 Samuel 19:35 שְׁמֹנִ֣ים eighty

    I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

    Here: Eighty years: the far edge of a long life in Israel's own reckoning (Psalm 90:10, 'if by strength, eighty').

1 Kings · 3
  1. 1 Kings 5:15 וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים and eighty

    Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,

  2. 1 Kings 6:1 בִשְׁמוֹנִ֣ים in eighty

    In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.

  3. 1 Kings 12:21 וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים and eighty

    And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

2 Kings · 3
  1. 2 Kings 6:25 בִּשְׁמֹנִ֣ים for eighty

    So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.

  2. 2 Kings 10:24 שְׁמֹנִ֣ים eighty

    And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and warned them, “If anyone allows one of the men I am delivering into your hands to escape, he will forfeit his life for theirs.”

  3. 2 Kings 19:35 שְׁמוֹנִ֥ים eighty

    And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

    Here: Part of the number.

1 Chronicles · 3
  1. 1 Chronicles 7:5 שְׁמוֹנִ֤ים [was] eighty

    Their kinsmen belonging to all the families of Issachar who were mighty men of valor totaled 87,000, as listed in their genealogies.

  2. 1 Chronicles 15:9 שְׁמוֹנִֽים׃ ס eighty

    from the Hebronites, Eliel the chief and 80 of his relatives;

  3. 1 Chronicles 25:7 שְׁמוֹנִ֥ים eighty

    Together with their relatives, who were all trained and skillful in the songs of the LORD, they numbered 288.

2 Chronicles · 7
  1. 2 Chronicles 2:2 וּשְׁמוֹנִ֥ים and eighty

    So he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.

  2. 2 Chronicles 2:18 וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים and eighty

    Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.

  3. 2 Chronicles 11:1 וּשְׁמוֹנִ֥ים and eighty

    When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

    Here: 'And eighty': together, 180 of the unit that follows.

  4. 2 Chronicles 14:8 וּשְׁמוֹנִ֖ים and eighty

    Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah bearing large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin bearing small shields and drawing the bow. All these were mighty men of valor.

  5. 2 Chronicles 17:15 וּשְׁמוֹנִ֖ים and eighty

    next to him, Jehohanan the commander, and with him 280,000;

  6. 2 Chronicles 17:18 וּשְׁמוֹנִ֥ים and eighty

    and next to him, Jehozabad, and with him 180,000 armed for battle.

  7. 2 Chronicles 26:17 שְׁמוֹנִ֖ים eighty

    Then Azariah the priest, along with eighty brave priests of the LORD, went in after him.

Ezra · 1
  1. Ezra 8:8 שְׁמֹנִ֥ים [were] eighty

    from the descendants of Shephatiah, Zebadiah son of Michael, and with him 80 men;

Nehemiah · 2
  1. Nehemiah 7:26 שְׁמֹנִ֥ים eighty

    the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188;

    Here: "Eighty". The word is formed as the plural of "eight". KJV's "fourscore" is the older English way of saying the same number.

  2. Nehemiah 11:18 שְׁמֹנִ֥ים eighty

    The Levites in the holy city totaled 284.

Esther · 1
  1. Esther 1:4 שְׁמוֹנִ֥ים eighty

    And for a full 180 days he displayed the glorious riches of his kingdom and the magnificent splendor of his greatness.

Psalms · 1
  1. Psalm 90:10 שְׁמ֘וֹנִ֤ים eighty

    The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

    Here: Eighty: the outside limit for the unusually robust. Barzillai at eighty can no longer taste food or hear singers (2 Samuel 19:35), so this is old age at its limit, not the prime of life.

Song of Songs · 1
  1. Song of Songs 6:8 וּשְׁמֹנִ֖ים and eighty

    There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number,

    Here: The second, larger number. The group gets bigger as the women's rank goes down.

Isaiah · 1
  1. Isaiah 37:36 וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים and eighty

    Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

    Here: "And eighty." This is part of the count that the following word "thousand" multiplies.

Jeremiah · 1
  1. Jeremiah 41:5 שְׁמֹנִ֣ים eighty

    eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, carrying grain offerings and frankincense for the house of the LORD.

    Here: A sizable, organized group: a delegation or pilgrim band, not a few stragglers.

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