'Four' in the Bible

Now a river flowed out from Eden that watered the garden, and from there it diverged and became four branches.

And Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Shelah, and he fathered [other] sons and daughters.

And Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Eber, and he fathered [other] sons and daughters.

And Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he fathered Peleg, and he fathered [other] sons and daughters.

with Kedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Ellasar, four kings against five.

And he said to Abram, "{You must surely know} that your descendants shall be [as] aliens in a land {not their own}. And they shall serve them and they shall oppress them four hundred years.

"My lord, hear me. A [piece of] land [worth] four hundred shekels of silver--what [is] that between me and you? Bury your dead."

Then Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver {at the merchants' current rate}.

And the messengers returned to Jacob [and] said, "We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men [are] with him."

And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, Esau [was] coming and four hundred men [were] with him. And he divided the children among Leah and among Rachel, and among the two of his female servants.

And the period of dwelling of the {Israelites} that they dwelled in Egypt [was] four hundred and thirty years.

And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, on this exact day, all of Yahweh's divisions went out from the land of Egypt.

" 'If a man steals an ox or small livestock and slaughters it or sells it, he will make restitution with five cattle in place of the ox and with four sheep or goats in place of the small livestock.

And you will cast for it four gold rings, and you will put [them] on its four feet, with two rings on its one side and two rings on its second side.

And you will make four gold rings for it, and you will put the rings on the four corners where its four {legs} [are].

And on the lampstand [will be] four almond-flower cups, [with] its buds and its blossoms.

The length of the one curtain [will be] twenty-eight cubits, and the width [will be] four cubits [for] the one curtain; one measure [will be] for all the curtains.

The length of the one curtain [will be] thirty cubits, and the width [will be] four cubits [for] the one curtain; one measure [will be] for [the] eleven curtains.

And you will put it on four acacia pillars overlaid with gold [with] their gold hooks on four silver bases.

And you will make its horns on its four corners; its horns will be {of one piece with it}, and you will overlay it [with] bronze.

And you will make for it a grating, a work of bronze network, and you will make on the network four bronze rings on its four ends.

And for the gate of the courtyard [there will be] a screen of twenty cubits of blue and purple and crimson [yarns] and finely twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer; [with] their four pillars and their four bases.

And you will fill it [with] stone mounting, four rows [of] stone, a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald [is] the first row;

The length of the one curtain [was] twenty-eight cubits, and the width [was] four cubits [for] the one curtain; one measurement [was] for all the curtains.

The length of the one curtain [was] thirty cubits, and the width [was] four cubits [for] the one curtain; one measure [was] for [the] eleven curtains.

And he made for it four acacia pillars, and he overlaid them with gold, [with] their gold hooks, and he cast for them four silver bases.

And he cast for it four gold rings on its four feet; and two rings were on its one side, and two rings were on its second side.

And he cast for it four gold rings, and he put the rings on the four corners where its four {legs} [were].

And on the lampstand [were] four almond-flower cups, [with] its buds and its blossoms.

And he made its horns on its four corners; its horns were {of one piece with it}; and he overlaid it [with] bronze.

And he cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze grating [as] {holders} for the poles.

and [with] their four pillars and their four bases of bronze, [with] their silver hooks and [with] their tops and their bands of silver.

And the bronze of the wave offering [was] seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels.

And they filled it [with] four rows of stone; a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald [was] the first row;

But any [other] {winged insect} that has four legs [is] detestable to you.

those who were counted from the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

those who were counted from the tribe of Zebulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

those who were counted from the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

those who were counted from the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

and his division [are] fifty-four thousand four hundred.

and his division and the {ones counted} [are] fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

All those counted from the camp of Judah [are] one hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred. They will set out first according to their divisions.

All {those counted} from the camp of Reuben [are] one hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty. They will set out second according to their divisions.

And his division and the {ones counted} [are] thirty-five thousand four hundred.

And his division and the {ones counted} [are] fifty-three thousand four hundred.

Two utility carts and four cattle he gave to the descendants of Gershon {according to their required service};

and four utility carts and eight cattle he gave to the descendants of Merari {according to their required service}, {under the authority of} Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

each plate of silver [weighed] one hundred and thirty [shekels], and each bowl for drinking seventy, all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred [shekels], according to the sanctuary shekel;

All the clans of the Shuhamites, according to the ones counted of them, [were] sixty-four thousand four hundred.

These [were] the clans of the descendants of Asher according to the ones counted of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred.

These [were] the clans of Naphtali according to their clans, the ones counted of them, forty-five thousand four hundred.

(For only Og, king of Bashan, was left from the remnant of the Rephaim. Indeed, his bedstead--it [was] a bedstead of iron. It is in Rabbah of the {Ammonites}. Nine cubits [is] its length, and four cubits [is] its width according to the cubit of a man.)

"You shall make tassels for yourselves on the four corners of your clothing with which you cover [yourself].

Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages,

Anathoth and its pasturelands, Almon and its pasturelands; four cities.

Kibzaim and its pasturelands, and Beth-horon and its pasturelands; four cities.

Aijalon and its pasturelands, and Gath Rimmon and its pasturelands; four cities.

Jarmuth and its pasturelands, En Gannim and its pasturelands; four cities.

Helkath and its pasturelands, Rehob and its pasturelands; four cities.

Dimnah and its pasturelands, and Nahalal and its pasturelands; four cities.

Kedemoth and its pasturelands, and Mephaath and its pasturelands; four cities.

Heshbon and its pasturelands, and Jazer and its pasturelands; four cities [in] all.

So Abimelech and all the army that [was] with him got up [by] night, and they lay in ambush against Shechem [in] four divisions.

But his concubine felt repugnance toward him, and she left him and went to her father's house, to Bethlehem in Judah; she was there some four months.

And the leaders of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand sword-bearing infantry.

And the men of Israel besides Benjamin were counted four hundred thousand {sword-wielding men}; {all were warriors}.

But six hundred turned and fled toward the wilderness, to the rock of Rimmon, and they remained at the rock of Rimmon [for] four months.

And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had not {had sex with a man}, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan.

[The] Philistines lined up for the battle to meet Israel, and the battle was prolonged until Israel was defeated before [the] Philistines, {who} killed about four thousand men {on the battlefield}.

Every man in distress and every man who had a creditor and every embittered man gathered to him, and he became {their commander}. Now there [were] about four hundred men with him.

Then David said to his men, "Each man strap on his sword!" So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.

The number of days that David lived in the countryside of the Philistines [was] one year and four months.

David pursued, he and four hundred men; but two hundred men stayed because they were too exhausted to pass over the Wadi Besor.

Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped {except} four hundred young men who rode [off] on camels and fled.

It happened at the end of four years [that] Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow which I have made to Yahweh in Hebron,

These four [were] born for the Raphah in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year [after] the {Israelites} went out from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year {of Solomon's rule} over Israel, the month of Ziv (that [is] the second month), that he began to build the house for Yahweh.

Thus he made doorframes of olive wood on four sides for the doorway of the main hall

He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon; one hundred cubits its length, fifty cubits its width, and thirty cubits its height, on four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams atop the pillars.

And [on] the capitals which [were] on top of the pillars in the porch [were] works of lilies four cubits [high].

He made the ten stands of bronze; each stand [was] four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits in height.

[There were] four bronze wheels for each of the stands, with bronze axles; the four support pedestals for these [were] under the basin, and the supports [were] decorated on each side [with] wreaths.

Four of the wheels [were] underneath the frames, and the axles of the wheels [were] on the stands. The height of each wheel [was] a cubit and a half.

The four supports [were] the four corners of each stand, with the stand supporting it.

He also made ten bronze basins, [each] holding forty baths; each basin [was] four cubits, one basin on each of the ten stands.

and the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the two lattice works, the two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments for each latticework to cover the two bowls of the capitals which [were] on the surface of the pillars;

They went to Ophir and imported from there four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and they brought it to King Solomon.

So then, send [word] and assemble all of Israel to me on Mount Carmel, with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at the table of Jezebel."

Then Elijah said to the people, "I alone [am] left a prophet of Yahweh, but the prophets of Baal [are] four hundred and fifty men.

And he arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces, and placed [it] on the wood. Then he said, "Fill four jars [with] water, and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood."

Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them, "Shall I go against Ramoth-Gilead for the battle, or should I refrain?" Then they said, "Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king."

Now four men who had a skin disease were [at] the entrance of the gate, and they said {to each other}, "Why [are] we sitting here until we die?

Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-Shemesh. Then they came [to] Jerusalem, and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim up to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits!

And these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four by Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel;

The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.

The gatekeepers [were] on four sides: east, west, north, and south.

For the four mighty gatekeepers, they who [were] Levites, {were entrusted} and [were] over the chambers and over the storerooms of the house of God.

From the Levites: four thousand six hundred.

And Joab gave the number of the enrollment of the people to David. And it happened [that] all Israel [was] one million one hundred thousand men drawing a sword, and in Judah [were] four hundred and seventy thousand men drawing a sword.

Now Ornan was threshing wheat, and Ornan turned and saw the angel, and his four sons with him hid themselves.