'Forty' in the Bible

The children of Pashhur, a thousand, two hundred and forty-seven.

The music-makers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and forty-eight.

The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two.

The number of all the people together was forty-two thousand, three hundred and sixty;

As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five men and women to make music.

They had seven hundred and thirty-six horses, two hundred and forty-five transport beasts;

Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.

And his brothers, heads of families, two hundred and forty-two; and Amashsai, the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,

And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners seven hundred and forty-five of the Jews: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

And when these days are ended, turning on your right side, you are to take on yourself the sin of the children of Judah: forty days, a day for a year, I have had it fixed for you.

No foot of man will go through it and no foot of beast, and it will be unpeopled for forty years.

I will make the land of Egypt a waste among the countries which are made waste, and her towns will be unpeopled among the towns which have been made waste, for forty years: and I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries.

For this is what the Lord has said: At the end of forty years I will get the Egyptians together from the peoples where they have gone in flight:

And the door-opening was ten cubits wide; and the side walls of the door-opening were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

In the four angles there were spaces walled in, forty cubits long and thirty wide; the four were of the same size.

And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.

Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?

And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.

And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.

And he was in the waste land for forty days, being tested by Satan; and he was with the beasts; and the angels took care of him.

For forty days, being tested by the Evil One. And he had no food in those days; and when they came to an end, he was in need of food.

The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!

And to whom he gave clear and certain signs that he was living, after his death; for he was seen by them for forty days, and gave them teaching about the kingdom of God:

For the man on whom this act of power was done was more than forty years old.

But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.

At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.

This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.

But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land.

Then at their request for a king, God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the family of Benjamin, who was their king for forty years.

And more than forty of them took this oath.

But do not give way to them, for more than forty of them are waiting for him, having taken an oath not to take food or drink till they have put him to death: and now they are ready, waiting for your order

Five times the Jews gave me forty blows but one.

When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

And there came to my ears the number of those who had the mark on their brows, a hundred and forty-four thousand, who were marked out of every tribe of the people of Israel.

But do not take the measure of the space outside the house; because it has been given to the nations: and the holy town will be under their feet for forty-two months.

And there was given to him a mouth to say words of pride against God; and there was given to him authority to go on for forty-two months.

And I saw the Lamb on the mountain of Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand, marked on their brows with his name and the name of his Father.

And they made as it seemed a new song before the high seat, and before the four beasts and the rulers: and no man might have knowledge of the song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, even those from the earth whom God has made his for a price.

And he took the measure of its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, after the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.