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Literally, “87 years ago” (score sense: “group of 20”) the beginning of the Gettysburg Address made on Nove, by United States President Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865).Įrror message | View complete answer on What did Lincoln mean by four score and seven years ago?įour score and seven years ago … One “score” is 20, so “four score and seven” means 87 years. In modern language, it would be simply “87 years ago”.Įrror message | View complete answer on How many years is four score in the Bible?Įrror message | View complete answer on How many years is 4 score and 7 years ago?Įtymology. In Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, he used this (at the time) commonplace measure of score, meaning “20 years”. Psalm 90:10 says, “The days of our years are threescore years and ten and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years.” Fourscore is 80 years.Įrror message | View complete answer on Is four score and seven years ago in the Bible? He began the speech, “Four score and seven years ago.” Where would he get such a poetic sounding term? From the Bible, a book Lincoln studied his entire life. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address begins with the words, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” A score is another way of saying 20, so Lincoln was referring to 1776, which was 87 …Įrror message | View complete answer on What does four score and four years mean? And, then, “four score and seven years ago” is 87 years… which gets us to 1776 (1863 …