threescore years

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• threescore — three|score [ ,θri skɔr ] an old word meaning sixty : threescore years and ten (=70 years): He had lived for threescore years and ten …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• threescore — /ˈθriskɔ/ (say threeskaw) phrase threescore and ten, seventy years, especially when considered as a marker of old age …  

• Age — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Age >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 age age Sgm: N 1 oldness oldness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 old age old age advanced age golden years Sgm: N 1 senility senility senescence Sgm …   English dictionary for students

• Genesis 25 — 1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. 2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. 3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim …   The King James version of the Bible

• three score — UK / US number an old word meaning sixty threescore years and ten (= 70 years): He had lived for threescore years and ten …   English dictionary

• three score — UK US number an old word meaning ‘sixty’ threescore years and ten (=70 years): He had lived for threescore years and ten. Thesaurus: cardinal numbershyponym …   Useful english dictionary

• 1 Chronicles 2 — 1 These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, 2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 3 The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua… …   The King James version of the Bible

• death — /deth/, n. 1. the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. Cf. brain death. 2. an instance of this: a death in the family; letters published after his death. 3. the state of being …   Universalium

• Gettysburg Address — For the text of the Gettysburg Address, see Gettysburg Address at Wikisource. Main article: Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg The only confirmed photo of Abraham Lincoln (circled) at Gettysburg, taken about noon, just after… …   Wikipedia

• Psalm 90 (Ives) — Psalm 90 is a musical composition by the American composer and insurance executive Charles Ives, written in 1923–24. Contents 1 Style 2 Text 3 Analysis 3.1 Introduction …   Wikipedia

• Pharaoh —    The official title borne by the Egyptian kings down to the time when that country was conquered by the Greeks. (See Egypt.) The name is a compound, as some think, of the words Ra, the sun or sun god, and the article phe, the, prefixed; hence… …   Easton's Bible Dictionary