Bible dictionaries

Forty

What Bible dictionaries say about “Forty”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Forty - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

FOR'TY, a. [See Four.]

1. Four times ten.

2. An indefinite number; a colloquial use. A, B and C, and forty more.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

for'-ti ('arba`im; tessarakonta).

See FOUR (5); NUMBER.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2