'Four' in the Bible
Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers.
and Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Shelah, and he had other sons and daughters.
and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and he had other sons and daughters.
and Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and he had other sons and daughters.
against Chedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goiim and Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.
God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years.
“My lord, listen to me; a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”
Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, commercial standard.
The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and furthermore he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
Then Jacob lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.
Now the time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.
You shall cast four gold rings for it and fasten them on its four feet, and two rings shall be on one side of it and two rings on the other side of it.
You shall make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four feet.
and in the lampstand four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its bulbs and its flowers.
The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall have the same measurements.
The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains shall have the same measurements.
You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, their hooks also being of gold, on four sockets of silver.
You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.
You shall make for it a grating of network of bronze, and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.
For the gate of the court there shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of a weaver, with their four pillars and their four sockets.
You shall mount on it four rows of stones; the first row shall be a row of ruby, topaz and emerald;
The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains had the same measurements.
The length of each curtain was thirty cubits and four cubits the width of each curtain; the eleven curtains had the same measurements.
He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold, with their hooks of gold; and he cast four sockets of silver for them.
He cast four rings of gold for it on its four feet; even two rings on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
He cast four gold rings for it and put the rings on the four corners that were on its four feet.
In the lampstand there were four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its bulbs and its flowers;
He made its horns on its four corners, its horns being of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
He cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze grating as holders for the poles.
Their four pillars and their four sockets were of bronze; their hooks were of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their bands were of silver.
And they mounted four rows of stones on it. The first row was a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald;
Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service,
and four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
(For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was an iron bedstead; it is in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was nine cubits and its width four cubits by ordinary cubit.)
“You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.
Ain, Rimmon and Ether and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
Anathoth with its pasture lands and Almon with its pasture lands; four cities.
and Kibzaim with its pasture lands and Beth-horon with its pasture lands; four cities.
Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; four cities.
Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En-gannim with its pasture lands; four cities.
Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.
Dimnah with its pasture lands, Nahalal with its pasture lands; four cities.
Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.
Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands; four cities in all.
So Abimelech and all the people who were with him arose by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.
that the daughters of Israel went yearly to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.
But his concubine played the harlot against him, and she went away from him to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah, and was there for a period of four months.
But 600 men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and they remained at the rock of Rimmon four months.
The Philistines drew up in battle array to meet Israel. When the battle spread, Israel was defeated before the Philistines who killed about four thousand men on the battlefield.
Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him; and he became captain over them. Now there were about four hundred men with him.
David said to his men, “Each of you gird on his sword.” So each man girded on his sword. And David also girded on his sword, and about four hundred men went up behind David while two hundred stayed with the baggage.
The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.
But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor remained behind.
David slaughtered them from the twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.
These four were born to the giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
Now it came about in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.
He built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was 100 cubits and its width 50 cubits and its height 30 cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on the pillars.
The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits.
Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three cubits.
Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side.
The four wheels were underneath the borders, and the axles of the wheels were on the stand. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.
Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself.
He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin.
and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars;
They went to Ophir and took four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.
Then he arranged the wood and cut the ox in pieces and laid it on the wood.
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle or shall I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”
Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?
These were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan and Solomon, four, by Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel;
Now the sons of Issachar were four: Tola, Puah, Jashub and Shimron.
The gatekeepers were on the four sides, to the east, west, north and south.
for the four chief gatekeepers who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.
Now Ornan turned back and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. And Ornan was threshing wheat.
The sons of Shimei were Jahath, Zina, Jeush and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
The sons of Kohath were four: Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.
On the east there were six Levites, on the north four daily, on the south four daily, and at the storehouse two by two.
At the Parbar on the west there were four at the highway and two at the Parbar.
and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the pillars.
And Huram by his servants sent him ships and servants who knew the sea; and they went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir, and took from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold and brought them to King Solomon.
Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall we go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for God will give it into the hand of the king.”
They sent messages to me four times in this manner, and I answered them in the same way.
and behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people and they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.
The leech has two daughters,“Give,” “Give.”There are three things that will not be satisfied,Four that will not say, “Enough”:
There are three things which are too wonderful for me,Four which I do not understand:
Under three things the earth quakes,And under four, it cannot bear up:
Four things are small on the earth,But they are exceedingly wise:
There are three things which are stately in their march,Even four which are stately when they walk:
And He will lift up a standard for the nationsAnd assemble the banished ones of Israel,And will gather the dispersed of JudahFrom the four corners of the earth.
Yet gleanings will be left in it like the shaking of an olive tree,Two or three olives on the topmost bough,Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree,Declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
I will appoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares the Lord: “the sword to slay, the dogs to drag off, and the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
‘I will bring upon Elam the four windsFrom the four ends of heaven,And will scatter them to all these winds;And there will be no nationTo which the outcasts of Elam will not go.
As for the pillars, the height of each pillar was eighteen cubits, and it was twelve cubits in circumference and four fingers in thickness, and hollow.
Within it there were figures resembling four living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human form.
Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,
As for the form of their faces, each had the face of a man; all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and all four had the face of an eagle.
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