Topical Bible: Eighty

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The number eighty holds significance in various contexts within the Bible, often symbolizing a period of strength, maturity, or completion. It is a number that appears in both historical and symbolic narratives, reflecting the cultural and spiritual dimensions of the biblical text.

Biblical References:

1. Moses' Age: One of the most notable mentions of the number eighty is in relation to Moses. According to Exodus 7:7, "Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh." This age marks the beginning of Moses' leadership role in the Exodus, signifying a period of maturity and readiness for the monumental task of leading the Israelites out of Egypt.

2. The Age of the Levites: In Numbers 4, the Levites were initially called to serve from the age of thirty to fifty. However, in later Jewish tradition, the age of eighty came to be seen as a time of full maturity and wisdom, often associated with the completion of one's active service and the transition to a role of elder statesmanship and counsel.

3. Barzillai the Gileadite: In 2 Samuel 19:32-35, Barzillai the Gileadite is described as "a very old man, eighty years of age." Despite his age, he is portrayed as a man of great wealth and influence who provided for King David during Absalom's rebellion. His age is highlighted to emphasize his wisdom and the respect he commanded.

4. Psalm 90: Often attributed to Moses, Psalm 90:10 reflects on the human lifespan: "The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away." This verse underscores the idea that reaching the age of eighty is a sign of strength and endurance, yet it also serves as a reminder of the brevity and challenges of life.

Symbolic Significance:

In biblical numerology, the number eighty can symbolize a period of testing, trial, or preparation that leads to a new phase of life or mission. It is often associated with the culmination of a journey or the attainment of a significant milestone. The age of eighty, in particular, is seen as a time when one has accumulated wisdom and experience, making it a number that conveys respect and honor.

Cultural Context:

In ancient Near Eastern cultures, reaching the age of eighty was considered a remarkable achievement, often associated with divine favor and blessing. Elders who reached this age were revered for their life experiences and were often sought after for their counsel and guidance.

Conclusion:

The number eighty in the Bible is rich with meaning, representing a blend of historical narrative and symbolic depth. It marks significant transitions and achievements in the lives of biblical figures, serving as a testament to the enduring strength and wisdom that comes with age.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Eight times ten; fourscore.

2. (n.) The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.

3. (n.) A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.

Greek

3589. ogdoekonta -- eighty
... eighty. Part of Speech: Indeclinable Numeral (Adjective) Transliteration: ogdoekonta
Phonetic Spelling: (og-do-ay'-kon-tah) Short Definition: eighty Definition ...
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5064. tessares -- four
... Word Origin a prim. cardinal number Definition four NASB Word Usage eighty-four*
(1), forty-four* (3), four (29), four men (1), twenty-four* (6). four. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

8084. shemonim -- an eighty
... 8083, 8084. shemonim. 8085 . an eighty. Transliteration: shemonim Phonetic
Spelling: (shem-o-neem') Short Definition: eighty. Word ...
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Library

The Eighty Concubines, What; the Knowledge of the Incarnation ...
... Discourse VII."Procilla. Chapter VI."The Eighty Concubines, What; The
Knowledge of the Incarnation Communicated to the Prophets. ...
/.../chapter vi the eighty concubines what.htm

Question Eighty-Five the Effects of Sin
... Question Eighty-Five THE EFFECTS OF SIN. THE EFFECTS OF SIN We must now consider
the effects of sin. We must consider the corruption ...
/.../aquinas/nature and grace/question eighty-five the effects of.htm

Wesley Describes Himself at Eighty-Five
... Money for the Poor; Visits the House of Lords; His Reasons for his Long Life; "How
is the Tide Turned;" Last Entries Wesley Describes Himself at Eighty-five. ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/wesley describes himself at eighty-five.htm

Account of the Eighty Pious Delegates in Nicomedia, whom Valens ...
... Book VI. Chapter XIV."Account of the Eighty Pious Delegates in Nicomedia,
whom Valens burned with the Vessel in Mid-Sea. The Arians ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of sozomenus/chapter xiv account of the eighty.htm

Wesley at Eighty-One Begs 200
... Wesley Collects Money for the Poor; Visits the House of Lords; His Reasons for his
Long Life; "How is the Tide Turned;" Last Entries Wesley at Eighty-one Begs ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/wesley at eighty-one begs f.htm

Wesley's Eighty-Sixth Christmas
... Collects Money for the Poor; Visits the House of Lords; His Reasons for his Long
Life; "How is the Tide Turned;" Last Entries Wesley's Eighty-sixth Christmas. ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/wesleys eighty-sixth christmas.htm

Ascalon. Gerar. The Story of the Eighty Witches.
... Chapters 11-20 Chapter 14 Ascalon. Gerar. The Story of the Eighty Witches. 'Ascalon,'
in the Samaritan interpreter, is the same with 'Gerar,' Genesis 21.. ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 14 ascalon gerar the.htm

Well, the End of the Persecutions was Reached Eighty-Eight Years ...
... Book II. Chapter XXXIII. Well, the end of the persecutions was reached
eighty-eight years ago? Well, the end of the persecutions ...
/.../severus/life and writings of sulpitius severus /chapter xxxiii well the end.htm

How She Made Her Will, and Died at the Age of Eighty Years.
... Book III. Chapter XLVI."How she made her Will, and died at the Age of
Eighty Years. And when at length at the close of a long ...
/.../pamphilius/the life of constantine/chapter xlvi how she made her.htm

How Our People Served the Moabites Eighteen Years, and were Then ...
... CHAPTER 4. How Our People Served The Moabites Eighteen Years, And Were Then Delivered
From Slavery By One Ehud Who Retained The Dominion Eighty Years. ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 4 how our people.htm

Thesaurus

Eighty (36 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects. 3. (n.) A symbol
representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx. ...
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Eighty-five (4 Occurrences)
Eighty-five. Eighty-eight, Eighty-five. Eighty-four . Multi-Version Concordance
Eighty-five (4 Occurrences). Joshua 14:10 "Now, behold ...
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Eighty-six (2 Occurrences)
Eighty-six. Eighty-seven, Eighty-six. Eighty-three . Multi-Version
Concordance Eighty-six (2 Occurrences). Genesis 16:16 Abram was ...
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Eighty-four (2 Occurrences)
Eighty-four. Eighty-five, Eighty-four. Eighty-seven . Multi-Version
Concordance Eighty-four (2 Occurrences). Luke 2:37 and she had ...
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Eighty-seven (2 Occurrences)
Eighty-seven. Eighty-four, Eighty-seven. Eighty-six . Multi-Version
Concordance Eighty-seven (2 Occurrences). Genesis 5:25 Methuselah ...
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Eighty-three (1 Occurrence)
Eighty-three. Eighty-six, Eighty-three. Eighty-two . Multi-Version
Concordance Eighty-three (1 Occurrence). Exodus 7:7 Moses was ...
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Eighty-two (2 Occurrences)
Eighty-two. Eighty-three, Eighty-two. Either . Multi-Version Concordance
Eighty-two (2 Occurrences). Genesis 5:26 Methuselah ...
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Eighty-eight (2 Occurrences)
Eighty-eight. Eighty, Eighty-eight. Eighty-five . Multi-Version Concordance
Eighty-eight (2 Occurrences). 1 Chronicles 25:7 The ...
/e/eighty-eight.htm - 7k

Warriors (75 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:21 When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of
Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men ...
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Eighty (36 Occurrences)

Luke 2:37
and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
(WEB WEY BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 16:7
Then said he to another,'How much do you owe?' He said,'A hundred cors of wheat.' He said to him,'Take your bill, and write eighty.'
(WEB WEY BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

John 19:39
Nicodemus too--he who at first had visited Jesus by night--came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, in weight about seventy or eighty pounds.
(WEY)

Genesis 5:25
Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Genesis 5:26
Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Genesis 5:28
Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of a son,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Genesis 16:16
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 35:28
The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 7:7
Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 2:9
All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 4:48
even those who were numbered of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Joshua 14:10
"Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 3:30
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. The land had rest eighty years.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 22:18
The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the priests!" Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 19:32
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 19:35
I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 5:15
Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

1 Kings 12:21
When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

2 Kings 6:25
There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 10:24
They went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed him eighty men outside, and said, "If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him."
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 7:5
Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

1 Chronicles 15:9
of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

1 Chronicles 25:7
The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

2 Chronicles 2:2
Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 2:18
He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

2 Chronicles 11:1
When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 14:8
Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred eighty thousand: all these were mighty men of valor.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 17:15
and next to him Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred eighty thousand;
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

2 Chronicles 17:18
and next to him Jehozabad and with him one hundred eighty thousand ready prepared for war.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

2 Chronicles 26:17
Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men:
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Nehemiah 7:26
The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Esther 1:4
He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
(WEB BBE WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Song of Songs 6:8
There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
(WEB BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 37:36
The angel of Yahweh went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 41:5
that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

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