need to know just how long a score is shutch as mr lincoln speech 4 score and 7 years ago etc
2006-09-07 04:55:03 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-09-07 04:58:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about bible years, (since the Gettysburg Address and Lincoln have nothing to do with the bible) but a score is 20 years. So, when he's talking about 4 score and 7 years ago, it's 4 times 20. So, 80 years plus 7 years.
2006-09-07 12:01:56 · answer #2 · answered by answerlady1021 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a score is 20 so 4 score and 7 years = 87 years.
2006-09-07 12:33:49 · answer #3 · answered by attb 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A score is a count of twenty. When Mr. Lincoln said: "Four score and seven years ago..." He was saying, "Eighty seven years ago."
I am probably wrong, but I just can't seem to remember "score" being used in the Bible to measure time? In any case, a score as a measure of years would mean twenty years.
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2006-09-07 12:05:54 · answer #4 · answered by H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
score is 20 years. The KJV of the Bible was produced in 1611; in 1860's that's only 250 years later, and the King's English was still being used to some extent, including the word "score"
2006-09-07 12:14:31 · answer #5 · answered by J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a score = 20
2006-09-07 12:00:34 · answer #6 · answered by digital genius 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
4 score and 7 = 87 years ago, refering to 1776!
2006-09-07 12:01:07 · answer #7 · answered by STONE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a score is 20yrs. hence when Martin Luther King said 5 score years ago in his 1963 speech, he was referring to 1863, and what Lincoln did.
2006-09-07 11:56:27 · answer #8 · answered by abdulaziiz 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A score is definitely twenty, NOT ten. It has often been said that the average human life is 'three score and ten years' ie 70 years.
Trust me. Or if not, check a dictionary, okay?
2006-09-07 12:04:49 · answer #9 · answered by Lenky 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to the Bible the earth is 6000 or so years old !
2006-09-07 11:59:50 · answer #10 · answered by Catt 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋