Strong's Greek · G1440

ἑβδομήκοντα

hebdomḗkonta

seventy, three score and ten

Definition

seventy

Derivation

from G1442 (ἕβδομος) and a modified form of G1176 (δέκα);

Appears 5 times in Scripture

Acts 7:14

Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.

Luke 10:1

After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit.

Luke 10:17

The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your name.”

Acts 23:23

Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night.

Acts 27:37

In all, there were 276 of us on board.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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