'Forty' in the Bible

After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.

He was in the wilderness forty days, enduring temptations from Satan. He was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.

where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.

For the man, on whom this miraculous sign of healing had been performed, was over forty years old.

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

"After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.

There were more than forty of them who formed this conspiracy.

So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request."

Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one.

"There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?