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What time period is fourscore?
A score is twenty, and fourscore is therefore eighty.
Where is threescore and ten found in the Bible?
Gen 50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him three-score and ten days. When Joseph's father died in Egypt, they mourned him 3 x 20 days plus 10 more = 70 days total. " Some say a score is 10 more than 50, (like half dozen!) Also Psalms 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years = we live 70 maybe 80 if lucky!
What is a score in reference to time?
A score means 20, so fourscore and seven years is 87 years (20*4 + 7,) and threescore and six days is 67 days (20*3 + 7)
What period of ten years called?
A period of ten years is a decade.
How do you say i am ten years in Chinese?
i am ten years ？ I think you mean'i'm ten years old'？ i'm ten years old=我十岁。
Three score years and ten?
This phrase refers to living to be seventy years old. It comes from the Bible, specifically Psalm 90:10, which states, "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years."
How old is fourscore and five years?
Fourscore and five years is 85 years old. It's not rocket science, honey. Just add 80 (four score) and 5 together and boom, you've got your answer. Math doesn't have to be as complicated as your love life.
How many years is fourscore and seven years ago?
fourscore and seven years ago means 87 years ago
What do call 20 years?
Twenty years is a score, as in "Fourscore and seven years ago..." Fourscore and seven equals 87.
How many years is fourscore?
It is 80 years.
Is fourscore found in the book of Psalms?
Yes, in Psalm 90:10 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. (KJV)This is the only appearance of the word in Psalm. Contemporary translations render it as "eighty."
Where in the bible can you find three scores and ten years?
Threescore and ten years appears 4 times in the Bible. The passage that I like is: 10. The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. (Psalm 90)
Where in the Bible is the phrase three score and then?
The phrase Three score years and ten is from Psalms 90 verse 10: The days of our years are threescore years and ten;and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years,yet is their strength labor and sorrow;for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
What does fourscore and five mean?
FOUR SCORE AND TEN = 90. A score is 20 therefore 4 score is 4 x 20 =80 + 10 = 90
Can't remember where in the Bible does it talk about age 70 and above that is with pain?
Psalm 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by strength they are fourscore years, yet their pride is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Where in the Bible is the phrase four score and ten located?
The phrase "fourscore and ten" does not appear in any translation of the Bible that I've been able to find. The American Standard Version and the King James Version do use the archaic term "score", meaning "twenty".Example from Psalms 90:10: The days of our years are threescore years and ten (that would total 70 years); and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years (that would total 80 years), yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.Beginning with the now-iconic phrase "Four score and seven years ago," Abraham Lincoln's GettysburgAddress referred to the events of the American Revolution and described the ceremony at Gettysburg as an opportunity not only to dedicate the grounds of a cemetery, but also to consecrate the living in the struggle to ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
How did Abraham Lincoln's most famous speech begin?
Fourscore and seven years ago . . .
