'Forty' in the Bible

There He fasted for forty days and nights; and after that He suffered from hunger.

where He remained for forty days, tempted by Satan; and He was among the wild beasts, but the angels waited upon Him.

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led about by the Spirit in the Desert for forty days,

He had also, after He suffered, shown Himself alive to them with many sure proofs, appearing to them at intervals during forty days, and speaking of the Kingdom of God.

For the man was over forty years of age on whom this miracle of restoration to health had been performed.

"And when he was just forty years old, it occurred to him to visit his brethren the descendants of Israel.

"But at the end of forty years there appeared to him in the Desert of Mount Sinai an angel in the middle of a flame of fire in a bush.

This was he who brought them out, after performing marvels and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea, and in the Desert for forty years.

So God turned from them and gave them up to the worship of the Host of Heaven, as it is written in the Book of the Prophets, "'Were they victims and sacrifices which you offered Me, forty years in the Desert, O House of Israel?

For a period of about forty years, He fed them, like a nurse, in the Desert.

Next they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a Benjamite, who reigned forty years.

There were more than forty of them who bound themselves by this oath.

I beg you not to comply; for more than forty men among them are lying in wait for him, who have solemnly vowed that they will neither eat nor drink till they have assassinated him; and even now they are ready, in anticipation of receiving that promise of you."

From the Jews I five times have received forty lashes all but one.

where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during forty years.

And with whom was God so greatly grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the Desert?