'Forty' in the Bible
those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.
and his host, even those that were numbered of them, forty thousand five hundred.
And they returned from searching out the land after forty days.
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
After the number of the days in which ye have searched out the land, forty days, each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know mine estrangement from you.
These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand five hundred.
And Jehovah's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation was consumed that had done evil in the eyes of Jehovah.