FORTY

FORTY. → Remarkable coincidences in the number → DAYS
* Of rain, at the time of the flood Ge 7:17
* Of flood, before sending forth the raven Ge 8:6
* For embalming Ge 50:3
* Of fasting

By Moses Ex 24:18; 34:28; De 9:9,25 By Elijah 1Ki 19:8 By spies in the land of promise Nu 13:25
* Of probation, given to the Ninevites Jon 3:4
* By Jesus Mt 4:2
* Christ's stay after the resurrection Ac 1:3
* Symbolical Eze 4:6

→ YEARS
* Wanderings of the Israelites in the wilderness Ex 16:35; Nu 14:34
* Peace in Israel Jud 3:11; 5:31; 8:28
* Egypt to be desolated Eze 29:11
* To be restored after Eze 29:13

→ STRIPES
* Administered in punishing criminals De 25:3; 2Co 11:24

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forty. Forty, a. ten repeated four times

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For″ty (fôr″ty̆), a. [[OE. forti, fourti, fowerti, AS. feówertig; feówer four + suff. -tig ten; akin to OS. fiwartig, fiartig, D. veertig, G. vierzig, Icel. fjörutīu, Sw. fyratio, Dan. fyrretyve, Goth. fidwōr tigjus. See Four, and Ten, and cf. Fourteen.]] Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more.