threescore in English

1
sixty.
The Bible tells us that ‘the days of our years are threescore and ten’ or, ‘by reason of strength,’ sometimes fourscore.
adjective

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1. Now of my threescore years and ten.

2. The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.

3. The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.

4. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

5. And the LORD's tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.

6. Man’s life span basically remains near the Biblical “threescore years and ten.” —Psalm 90:10, King James Version.

7. And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.

8. 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 2 Chronicles 2.18, And he [Solomon] set threescore and ten thousand of them [the foreigners living in Israel] to be Bearers of burdens,

9. I knew where he is, replied threescore and five; the wicked rogue, the Butcherly dog, the murderer! Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

10. And 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 23:33 View whole chapter See verse in context Who, when they came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before