forty days
Traditional fasting period
Forty days is a biblical and mythological unit of time signifying a period of trial, preparation, or transformation.
It rains for forty days and forty nights in the story of Noah's flood.
Jesus fasts forty days in the wilderness.
Moses spends forty days on Mount Sinai.
The phrase appears in contexts evoking spiritual testing or endurance: After forty days of isolation, she emerged changed.
- lentGave to return
- Lenten seasonPre-Easter penitential period
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- floodOverwhelming water overflow
- NoahBiblical vessel builder
ark · fasting · giving up · wilderness · temptation · Jesus · Moses · Sinai · desert · desert wandering · Mount Sinai · penance · rain · deluge · biblical · trial · preparation · Easter
- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
- feudalismfief, vassal, fealty, homage, lord
- FastingRamadan, Yom Kippur, Lenten fasting, water fast, intermittent fasting
- Flood MythsNoah, deluge, flood myth, biblical flood, flood story
- JonahJonah, whale, Nineveh, swallowed, prophet
- LentAsh Wednesday, fasting, abstinence, almsgiving, Holy Week
forty dayseternity
Boundless temporal existence
forever · in the blink of an eye · overnight · briefly · momentarily
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Standard weekly duration
three days · one day · forty years · immediately · at once
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