seventy

• POS: Definite Article, Noun
• HYPHEN: sev=en=ty
• COUNT in NET: 39 in 58 verses (in OT : 38 in 51 verses) (in NT : 1 in 7 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

seventy, a. [AS. hund-seofontig. See Seven, and Ten, and cf. Seventeen, Sixty.].

 Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.  [1913 Webster]

seventy, n. 

•  The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.  [1913 Webster]
•  A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx.  [1913 Webster]

The Seventy, the translators of the Greek version of the Old Testament called the Septuagint. See Septuagint.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

seventy, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 the product of seven and ten.
2 a symbol for this (70, lxx, LXX).
3 (in pl.) the numbers from
70 to 79, esp. the years of a century or of a person's life.
--adj. that amount to seventy.

Idiom

seventy-first, -second , etc. the ordinal numbers between seventieth and eightieth. seventy-one, -two , etc. the cardinal numbers between seventy and eighty.

Derivative

seventieth adj. & n. seventyfold adj. & adv.

Etymology

OE -seofontig

ROGET THESAURUS

seventy

Five

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