Using Gutenberg’s KJV, I get 111 hits for ′ forty ‘; filtering ‘forty and’ (for numbers spelled out like ‘forty and two’) gets me 72. Filtering out ‘days’ and ‘years’, none of them seem to be the trope; so the Bible seems to use it solely for days and years, but not months, minutes, weeks, etc.
Using Gutenberg’s KJV, I get 111 hits for ′ forty ‘; filtering ‘forty and’ (for numbers spelled out like ‘forty and two’) gets me 72. Filtering out ‘days’ and ‘years’, none of them seem to be the trope; so the Bible seems to use it solely for days and years, but not months, minutes, weeks, etc.
Cool.