'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.