190 occurrences

'Four' in the Bible

Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers.

Verse ConceptsBefore The FloodWater IrrigationFour Other ThingsGardensRivers

and Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Shelah, and he had other sons and daughters.

Verse Concepts100 Years And More

and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and he had other sons and daughters.

Verse Concepts100 Years And More

and Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and he had other sons and daughters.

Verse Concepts100 Years And More

against Chedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goiim and Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.

Verse ConceptsFour PeopleFive People

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.

Verse ConceptsForeignersOppression, Nature Of100 Years And MoreSojourningSure KnowledgeThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelDescendants ofslaveryoppression

“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.”

Verse ConceptsReal EstateUnimportant Things

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.

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Making AgreementsMerchantsTradeWeighingIn Men's PresenceAgreeing With One Anotherhumor

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.”

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutFour To Five HundredMeeting PeopleFour And Five Hundred

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.

Verse ConceptsFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredSeeing PeopleFamily Conflict

Now the time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

Verse ConceptsLength100 Years And MoreLiving In The Land

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.

Verse Concepts100 Years And MoreLeaving EgyptAt The Same TimeEarthly Armiesdivision

“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.

Verse ConceptsCompensationHeadsLaw, OtRestitutionSheepFour CreaturesFive Animals

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.

Verse ConceptsFour SupportsGold Items For The Tabernacl

You shall make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four feet.

Verse ConceptsFour SupportsGold Items For The Tabernacl

and in the lampstand four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its bulbs and its flowers.

Verse ConceptsFour Vessels

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.

Verse ConceptsSame Sizes

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.

Verse ConceptsSame Sizes

You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, their hooks also being of gold, on four sockets of silver.

Verse ConceptsHooksFour SupportsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With GoldSocketsGold Items For The Tabernacl

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.

Verse ConceptsHornsFour HornsOverlaid With BronzeOne Material Thing

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.

Verse ConceptsFour SupportsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

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.

Verse ConceptsembroideryFour SupportsPillars For The TabernacleRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothMulti ColouredDimensions Of Other ThingsBlue Purple And Scarlet

You shall mount on it four rows of stones; the first row shall be a row of ruby, topaz and emerald;

Verse ConceptsEmeraldsPrecious StonesFour Other ThingsJewellery And God

The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains had the same measurements.

Verse ConceptsSame Sizes

The length of each curtain was thirty cubits and four cubits the width of each curtain; the eleven curtains had the same measurements.

Verse ConceptsSame Sizes

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.

Verse ConceptsFour SupportsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With GoldSocketsGold Items For The Tabernacl

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.

Verse ConceptsFeetFour SupportsGold Items For The Tabernacl

He cast four gold rings for it and put the rings on the four corners that were on its four feet.

Verse ConceptsFour Supports

In the lampstand there were four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its bulbs and its flowers;

Verse ConceptsFour Vessels

He made its horns on its four corners, its horns being of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.

Verse ConceptsHornsFour HornsOverlaid With BronzeOne Material Thing

He cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze grating as holders for the poles.

Verse ConceptsFour Supports

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.

Verse ConceptsFour SupportsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With SilverBronze Items For The Tabernacle

And they mounted four rows of stones on it. The first row was a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald;

Verse ConceptsPrecious StonesFour Other ThingsJewellery And God

Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service,

Verse ConceptsTwo Other Things

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.

Verse ConceptsFour Other Things

(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.)

Verse ConceptsBreadthBedsIronMetalsGiantsIron ObjectsSole SurvivorsDimensions Of Other Things

“You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.

Verse ConceptsTasselsFour CornersFringe Of ClothesMixing MaterialsFour SidesGarments

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

Verse ConceptsFour Cities

Anathoth with its pasture lands and Almon with its pasture lands; four cities.

Verse ConceptsPriesthood, In OtFour Cities

and Kibzaim with its pasture lands and Beth-horon with its pasture lands; four cities.

Verse ConceptsFour Cities

Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; four cities.

Verse ConceptsFour Cities

Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En-gannim with its pasture lands; four cities.

Verse ConceptsFour Cities

Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.

Verse ConceptsFour Cities

Dimnah with its pasture lands, Nahalal with its pasture lands; four cities.

Verse ConceptsFour Cities

Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.

Verse ConceptsFour Cities

Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands; four cities in all.

Verse ConceptsFour Cities

So Abimelech and all the people who were with him arose by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.

Verse ConceptsFour Groups

that the daughters of Israel went yearly to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.

Verse ConceptsLamentingFour Or Five Days

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.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessTwo To Four MonthsThose Who Committed Adulterywhores

But 600 men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and they remained at the rock of Rimmon four months.

Verse ConceptsSix To Seven HundredTwo To Four MonthsIsrael FleeingSurvivors Of IsraelSix Hundred And Above

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.

Verse ConceptsFour ThousandKilling Within Israel

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.

Verse ConceptsResentment, Against PeopleFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredDepressionDebtheartbroken

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.

Verse ConceptsThe Number Two HundredFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredBaggage

The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

Verse ConceptsOne Year

But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor remained behind.

Verse ConceptsThe Number Two HundredFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredTired In Pursuittired

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.

Verse ConceptsEscapingCamelsCavalryFour To Five HundredOne DayEscaping From PeopleFour And Five HundredFighting Enemies

These four were born to the giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

Verse ConceptsFour People

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.

Verse ConceptsBeginningKingsMonthProperty, HousesSolomon, Life OfTypes Of ChristCalendarsMonth 2100 Years And MoreStarting To BuildThe First Temple

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.

Verse ConceptsBeamsForestsBreadthBuildingFour SupportsRoyal HousesDimensions Of BuildingsCedar Wood

The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Pillars

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.

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsDimensions Of Temple FurnitureBronze Items For The Tabernacle

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.

Verse ConceptsBasinsWheelsFour SupportsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

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.

Verse ConceptsFour SupportsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself.

Verse ConceptsFour Supportsstructure

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.

Verse ConceptsWashingWeights And Measures, LiquidTen ThingsDimensions Of Temple FurnitureMeans Of PurifyingBronze Items For The Tabernacle

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;

Verse ConceptsFour To Five HundredPomegranatesFour And Five Hundred

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

Verse ConceptsCoinageCommerceWeights Of GoldTalents

Then he arranged the wood and cut the ox in pieces and laid it on the wood.

Verse ConceptsBarrelsAnimals Cut In PiecesPutting In OrderFour VesselsFirewood

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.”

Verse ConceptsSchool Of ProphetsFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredTo Be Given Into One's HandsWarBattleFake Friendsisraelprophetsgathering

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?

Verse ConceptsGatesLeprosyLonelinessQuarantineFour PeopleWaiting At GatesHow Death Is InevitableDyingWaiting Till Marriagesyria

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.

Verse ConceptsFour CornersNorth, South, East And WestFour Sides

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.

Verse ConceptsTreasuries

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

Verse ConceptsThreshingFour PeopleHiding From God

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.

Verse ConceptsFour PeopleSix PeopleStores Of Food

At the Parbar on the west there were four at the highway and two at the Parbar.

Verse ConceptsAmbiguityFour PeopleWest Sides

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.

Verse ConceptsFour To Five HundredPomegranatesFour And Five Hundred

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.

Verse ConceptsCoinageOfficersSeafaringThe NavyCommerceMariners

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.”

Verse ConceptsSchool Of ProphetsFour To Five HundredFour And Five Hundred

They sent messages to me four times in this manner, and I answered them in the same way.

Verse ConceptsFourfold

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.”

Verse ConceptsStormsActing AloneFour CornersDestruction Of HousesFour SidesDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsDeathHurricanes

After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsOld Age, Attainment OfFour GroupsAge At Death

The leech has two daughters,“Give,” “Give.”There are three things that will not be satisfied,Four that will not say, “Enough”:

Verse ConceptsInsectsThree Or FourShortagesTwo WomenGreedvampires

There are three things which are too wonderful for me,Four which I do not understand:

Verse ConceptsAmazingThree Or Foursurprises

Under three things the earth quakes,And under four, it cannot bear up:

Verse ConceptsThree Or Four

Four things are small on the earth,But they are exceedingly wise:

Verse ConceptsAntsInstinctFour Creaturesmistresswise

There are three things which are stately in their march,Even four which are stately when they walk:

Verse ConceptsThree Or Fourdignity

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.

Verse Conceptsdispersion, theRemnantOutcastsFour CornersFlagsFour Sides

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.

Verse ConceptsRemnantSmall RemnantsTwo Or ThreeOlive Trees

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.

Verse ConceptsdogsWild Animals DevouringBirds EatingFour Other ThingsPets

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.

Verse ConceptsKnifesKnivesPensScrollsRejection Of God's WordRejecting God's WordThree Or FourReading The ScripturesBroken Things

‘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.

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesFour WindsExiled Foreigners

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.

Verse ConceptsFingersWeights And Measures, LinearDimensions Of PillarsBreadthHollownessHollow

Within it there were figures resembling four living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human form.

Verse ConceptsLike Men

Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,

Verse ConceptsAngels HandsFour SidesLike Men

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.

Verse ConceptsHeavenly FacesRight SidesEaglesCreatures Like LionsLike MenLeft Hand Side

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ארבּעה ארבּע 
'arba` 
Usage: 318

ארבּע 
'arba` (Aramaic) 
Usage: 8

ארבּעתּים 
'arba`tayim 
Usage: 1

רבעי רביעי 
R@biy`iy 
Usage: 56

רביעי 
R@biy`ay (Aramaic) 
Usage: 6

רבע 
Raba` 
Usage: 12

רבע 
Reba` 
Usage: 7

רבע 
Roba` 
Usage: 2

רבּע 
Ribbea` 
Usage: 4

שׁמונים שׁמנים 
Sh@moniym 
Usage: 38

δεκατέσσαρες 
Dekatessares 
Usage: 5

ὀγδοήκοντα 
Ogdoekonta 
Usage: 1

τέσσαρες τέσσαρα 
Tessares 
Usage: 40

τεσσαρεσκαιδέκατος 
Tessareskaidekatos 
Usage: 2

τέταρτος 
Tetartos 
Usage: 10

τετράγωνος 
Tetragonos 
Usage: 1

τετρακισχίλιοι 
Tetrakischilioi 
Usage: 3

τετρακόσιοιτετρακόσια 
Tetrakosioi 
Usage: 4

τετράμηνον 
Tetramenon 
Usage: 0

τετράπους 
Tetrapous 
Usage: 3

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