A "score" is 20. So 3 times 20 plus 10 = 70.
If you are thinking of the word 'score' as a span of life, it is of biblical origin, Leviticus 12 and Psalms 90 which quotes 'there is a use of it that refers to a span of our lives' - 'the days of our years are three score years and ten'. Also borrowed by Shakespeare in Macbeth as 'Three score and ten I can remember well,' The span of life was then considered to be three score and ten, in other words 70 years
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!
These words are not mentioned in the bible.
"Two score and ten" refers to the number 50. In this phrase, "score" means 20, so "two score" equals 40, and adding ten gives a total of 50. This expression is often used in a poetic or literary context to denote age or quantity.
"Ten score" refers to a quantity of 200. In this phrase, "score" means 20, so ten score is calculated as 10 times 20, which equals 200. The term is famously used in Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address," where he starts with "Four score and seven years ago," meaning 87 years ago.
Psalm 90, "The days of our years are threescore and ten".
A score is twenty; if read as 'a score, ten and three' it is 20 + 10 + 3 = 33, but if read as 'a score [times] ten' it becomes 203.
If you are thinking of the word 'score' as a span of life, it is of biblical origin, Leviticus 12 and Psalms 90 which quotes 'there is a use of it that refers to a span of our lives' - 'the days of our years are three score years and ten'. Also borrowed by Shakespeare in Macbeth as 'Three score and ten I can remember well,' The span of life was then considered to be three score and ten, in other words 70 years
Answer:Threescore and ten means "seventy." A "score" equals "twenty." Three twenties equals "sixty" - plus "ten": "seventy."
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.
70 miles. A score is 20.
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"Three score and ten" in the nursery rhyme "The Four and Twenty Blackbirds" refers to the number 70. In the context of the rhyme, it signifies the age of the "old woman" who was baking the pie with the blackbirds in it.
A "score" is 20. Three score = 60 The term "score" was a commonly-used Middle English word, from the Old English "scoru," which meant "twenty." More than likely this, in turn, came from the Norse skor.
1 score = 20 years So 3 score and ten would be 70 years.
Daniel Boone - 1964 Three Score and Ten 5-16 was released on: USA: 6 February 1969