{"id":114531,"date":"2026-11-08T16:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T16:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=114531"},"modified":"2026-11-08T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T16:17:11","slug":"biblical-meaning-number-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/biblical-meaning-number-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Was bedeutet die Zahl 40 in der Bibel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>The Bible never says what the number 40 itself means, though it comes back again and again to forty days or forty years as a time of testing, waiting or getting ready. We counted the word &quot;forty&quot; through all 66 books of the King James Bible and found it 158 times in 145 verses. A few of those verses say why a particular stretch came to forty or what it was for, and none of them tells us what the\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture never says what 40 means. It uses forty days and years for testing and waiting; we list ten of them and count the KJV&#039;s 158 uses of the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-114531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11559,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/jeremiah-gods-call-youthful-prophet\/","url_meta":{"origin":114531,"position":0},"title":"How Old Was Jeremiah When God Called Him? Young, Perhaps 20","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"November 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The Bible gives no number. Jeremiah said \"I am a child\" in 627 BC, and he was perhaps about twenty. 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