Fourfold

Fourfold - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

FOURFOLD, a. Four double; quadruple; four times told; as a fourfold division.

He shall restore the lamb fourfold. 2 Sam 12.

FOURFOLD, n. Four times as much.

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Occurs but twice in English Versions: 2Sa 12:6, "He shall restore the lamb fourfold"; and Lu 19:8 the King James Version, "If I have wrongfully exacted ought .... I restore fourfold." From this statement of Zaccheus we are to understand that fourfold the amount of that which was stolen was the restoration the law required of a thief. This was the extreme penalty the law imposed. In some cases double the amount was to be restored (Ex 22:4,7); in others, a fifth of its value was added to the thing restored (Le 6:5); still again, an amount equal to that taken was to be restored (1Sa 12:3).