Strong’s G1440 · Greek
ἑβδομήκοντα
hebdomḗkonta · heb-dom-ay'-kon-tah
Origin from ἕβδομος (G1442) and a modified form of δέκα (G1176);
Meaning seventy
In the King James Version seventy, three score and ten.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Luke 10:1After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
- Luke 10:17And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
- Acts 7:14Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
- Acts 23:23And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
- Acts 27:37And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.