Fourfold
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
an adjective, is found in Luke 19:8 .
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. t.) To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment,; to quadruple.
(2): ( n.) Four times as many or as much.
(3): ( a. & adv.) Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division.
King James Dictionary [3]
Fourfold a. Four double quadruple four times told as a fourfold division.
He shall restore the lamb fourfold. 2 Samuel 12 .
FOURFOLD, n. Four times as much.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
fōr - fōld : Occurs but twice in English Versions: 2 Samuel 12:6 , "He shall restore the lamb fourfold"; and Luke 19:8 the King James Version, "If I have wrongfully exacted ought ... I restore fourfold." From this statement of Zaccheus we are to understand that fourfold the amount of that which was stolen was the restoration the law required of a thief. This was the extreme penalty the law imposed. In some cases double the amount was to be restored ( Exodus 22:4 , Exodus 22:7 ); in others, a fifth of its value was added to the thing restored ( Leviticus 6:5 ); still again, an amount equal to that taken was to be restored ( 1 Samuel 12:3 ).
